Word: spits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Cuba was a subject that gave him pleasure, the Congo was an annoyance to him. Throughout the voyage he was obsessed with the U.N.'s involvement in the Congo, especially the performance of the U.N. peace-keeping troops there and the activities of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "I spit on the U.N.," he raged. "It's not our organization. That good-for-nothing Ham (the Russian word for boor applied as a nickname to the U.N. chief) is sticking his nose in important affairs which are none of his business. He has seized authority that doesn't belong...
Between the third Monday of September and Commencement, which is always the 38th Thursday after that, Law said she must squeeze in the various add, drop and withdrawal deadlines, vacations, exams and reading periods. She aims for 166 to 167 teaching days per year and tries to spit them evenly between semesters...
...rejection of the incumbents. "The Liberal Party had become too remote, too arrogant," says George Perlin, professor of political science at Queens University at Kingston, Ont. Editorialized the Toronto Sun the day after the ballot: "The people didn't speak, they bellowed, then chewed up the Liberals and spit them...
...Metro, Paradise, and Spit round out the concert scene, and the three are the most established in the area, because they are run by the biggest music strongman in town...
...Vice President or a bad Vice President?a Vice President is simply a hypothesis on hold. John Nance Garner, Vice President in Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms, said that the office "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss"?a phrase the listening reporter bowdlerized to "warm spit...