Word: spits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...position by coming down on the floor and getting involved in hand-to-hand combat." No one could recall a House Speaker ever having been thus reprimanded. (The only known precedent was in 1798, when the House was debating the expulsion of Vermont's Matthew Lyon, who had spit in the face of a fellow member. After an explosive exchange, Speaker Jonathan Dayton challenged another member to a duel. Dayton, who was indicted for treason nine years later, along with Aaron Burr, was called to order for improper utterances...
...decide whether it can be distributed throughout the Soviet Union and overseas. Yevtushenko insists he will make no cuts. "I won't change anything now," he says. "I will not give in to censorship. If you give one finger to censorship, it will swallow your whole body and spit out bits of your flesh...
...distribution of resources in response to society's demands for certain skills. But does society really value more the Harvard graduate who does market consulting than the one who helps with food distribution? I would hope it does not. An enlightened government does not merely respond to the priorities spit out by the free market, but also dictates the principles to guide it. The low pay in public service sectors is a market failure, and the federal government needs to intervene directly...
...come to his place for coffee. She declined, but he continued to walk alongside her, down the dimly lit street, taunting: "Whattsa matter? You don't like Wops? Too good for 'em?" As they neared her house, she knew better than to enter it. As the man spit out, "I'll bite your fuckin' tits off, cunt," she turned sharply and walked in the opposite direction for a quarter mile, in the rain and slush, until she felt safely out of range...
...assistant, the underhanded pitching coach (Dennis Franz, another Hill Street veteran), teaches his charges the subtler aspects of the game: "Your spitball isn't named exactly right. You could use your Vaseline, your oils, your earwax, or what I think is primo, the gooey white kind of spit that conies after drinking a lotta milk." Later, when an umpire spies a foreign substance on the ball, the freshly instructed young pitcher (Perry Lang) is not only humiliated but disarmed. When he returns home after the game, he discovers his wife in a compromising squeeze play with the cable...