Word: spits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spit-and-polish image of a career military officer: stocky and silver-haired, he stands straight as a bayonet and has a level gaze. But when former Marine Lieut. Colonel William Corson talks about the injustices done to veterans of the Viet Nam War, there is anger in his voice. Says Corson: "They deserved a hell of a lot more than we gave them. What did we do to facilitate the re-entry of these guys who sacrificed so much? The answer is, damn little...
...discussed, even in "heated conversation," as long as guests have the wit to avoid the four dreadful icebreakers (Do you live in London? What do you do? Have you any children? Have you been abroad this year?). And if the soup is scorching hot, a guest should spit it out to save his burning mouth...
Every year, the search process has quietly hummed through the fall, winter and spring, and finally spit out a speaker. How did it work in 1980-81? A little differently from most years because of the presidential intervention, but it's ad hoc in any case. "I don't think there's an exact science," Henry G. Van der Eb '42, who as president of the AHA had a major say in the selection, says. "It's an evolving, rolling process." While primary responsibility rests with the AHA, the informal consultating process and the tentative feelers that are extended...
...mother for some bread. I said, 'I'm hungry.' She said. 'If you have bread, you'll be thirsty.'" "It was a stratified society. If a worker saw me dressed up, he'd tip his hat...But if three minutes later he found out I was Jewish, he'd spit on me. I hadn't changed in those three minutes." "If the world changes, we feel it." "On the trolley one day, a Pole told me, 'You see those buildings--they belong to the Jews...There will be a time pretty soon when we will own those buildings...'" This last...
...around him. Atkinson turns this romantic dreamer with ideals dripping from his doublet into a sort of Dennis the Menace of the ancien regime. At first blush, you can't help wondering how this marginally pubescent page would go about kissing one of his idols--he'd have to spit out his bubblegum first. But Atkinson's verve and charm finally overcome the improbability of her characterization to make it a high point of the production...