Word: spits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it comes to celebrations, folks in Spartanburg, S.C., do not limit themselves to just the usual American holidays. Last week, for instance, a few days after the Fourth of July, they all turned out for Bastille Day. French Consul Jacqueline Dietrich borrowed a spit from a German neighbor, ordered supplies from Franz Kastner's gourmet delicatessen (Perrier water, lox and asparagus), invited the Swiss consul and representatives from Spartanburg's 40 European companies to celebration and song. Rudolf Mueller, manager of Menzel, Inc., a German-owned plant that makes textile machinery, was not there this time...
Francisco Franco brought decency honor, courage, respect, physical and spiritual health and safety to Spain but you whores prefer the terror of Bolshevism, and you have to spit on any leader or group that effectively stands up against...
...advises. Among other things, he instructs his readers on how to move: "Watch your stride. Don't waddle. Walk firmly, erect and with dignity." Style at the dinner table is also important. "Don't crumble your bread into the soup." Molochkov says. "Don't spit bones and so forth onto the plate." Nor should well-mannered diplomats slurp from the tip of their soup spoons, or ask for second helpings...
...Spit of Land. The West Bank Arabs fear that a decade of occupation could turn into permanent possession and continued encroachment by Jewish settlers. Since 1967, 45 communities (nine of them Jerusalem suburbs built on Arab land) have been created on the West Bank-in violation of the Geneva Convention of 1949, which states that an "occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." To West Bankers, the settlements are not only permanent, but they are also designed to surround and isolate the major Arab centers of population. Example...
...would be amazed and envious of Walter Frederick Mondale. Here is a Veep not only exercising power but reveling in it, surrounded by scurrying aides and history in the making. In the job that one of his 41 predecessors (John Nance Garner) compared unfavorably to a pitcher of warm spit, Mondale claims to be having the time of his life. He is a top adviser who is consulted, listened to and liked by the President: One measure of his closeness with his boss is their good-natured exchange of gibes. At the Gridiron Dinner, Mondale remarked how the press...