Word: spits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not aim to legitimize their actions, it effectively draws the connection between personal tragedies and larger social ills. The answers to these problems are not apparent and perhaps less so than they have been in less threatening times. But the despair which once prompted down trodden characters to "spit in the face of these badlands" and "take a knife and cut this pain from my heart" on previous albums now produces little of this feisty desire to combat debilitating odds. Pleads the jailed autoworker in "Johnny 99": "Then won't you sit back in that chair and think...
...handle deals for up to 150 million shares a day. A phone call later, Chemical Bank officials receive confirmation of the transaction and enter the information in their computer, which is linked to their Pine Street operational headquarters in Manhattan's financial district. The Chemical machine can spit out extensive historical information on the 75 key stocks in which the bank has heavy investments...
...soups and stews could cure loneliness and disappointment. The permutations of food and woe inspire him: "Why not a restaurant full of refrigerators, where people came and chose the food they wanted? . . . Or maybe he could install a giant fireplace, with a whole steer turning slowly on a spit. You'd slice what you liked onto your plate and sit around in armchairs eating and talking with the guests at large. Then again, maybe he would start serving only street food. Of course! He'd cook what people felt homesick...
...miss my brown spit," said left-fielder Paul Scheper '82, referring to problems caused by the dusty floor in the old Briggs...
...respect for his accurate calls and skill in handling irascible players; of an apparent heart attack; in Dunmore, Pa. Chylak, who would tolerate a player's profanity but not his physical abuse, once summarized his credo: "Put the words on me, but don't touch me or spit...