Word: spits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nickname, "Crash," and his, "Smash." He sent bowls of fruit to people in the marina with his card, which has JOHN "SMASH" THEURER printed on it. By that time, a lot of people were so upset they threw the fruit overboard. One morning, very early, he appeared on a spit of land across from the marina with a crew and some bulldozers and began tearing out mangroves, which are protected in Florida. The sheriff arrived and stopped...
...answer their questions and found joking about my presumed lunacy or incompetence the only possible response. Each was funny, in his own way. Unfortunately, the jokes fell flat on my cars; you see, I stutter. I answered slowly because that was the only speed at which I could spit out the words. This is not a call for sympathy. I rankly, I've been stuttering for a long time, and I'm used to it. Harvard students are not the only people who respond in this fashion. People are usually confused when confronted by my difficulty, as they would...
...talking about what they had just been through, or were embarrassed about it. "I went over there thinking I was doing something right and came back a bum," says Larry Langowski, now an administrator for Illinois Bell. "I came back decked with medals on my uniform, and I got spit on by a hippie girl...
...post as Secretary of the Treasury. In the White House, Baker often counseled compromise. Regan conceives his job to be one of making sure that the President's will literally becomes law. To see that this gets done the old Marine lieutenant colonel is shaping a hierarchical, spit-and-polish organization...
...horrible man who bought her brother's death: "I tell myself that one day he will come back here because he won't be able to resist seeing what's happened to his beautiful house." And when he does? the uneasy Chavel wonders aloud. The reply: "I'd spit in his face...