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Word: spits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three girls who left their junior high school early to go to the game borrow binoculars from people sitting near them and peruse the White Sox bullpen. One of them chortles, "Oh Lamarr Hoyt, he's the one I like." And then a moment later, "Ugh! He just spit. That's so disgusting...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Baseball Season Openers: A Look East and West Forget the Strike; Fans Turn Out Coast-to-Coast | 4/11/1981 | See Source »

Hyten adds, however, that Harvard can be an uncomfortable place for a ROTC cadet. "If you walk through Harvard Square in uniform, a lot of people make rude comments, like 'Oh, off to kill babies?' You're spit at a few times, but you get used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Patriotism and Money Spur a Harvard Cadet | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...Spit in face of Americans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 3/31/1981 | See Source »

...more serious side. Cross's picture of graduate student and junior faculty life is more devastating than any number of reports by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Terrorized by the tenured elite, condescended to by the students and spit out by the University when their time is up, these cogs in the big Harvard machine lead a pretty grim existence. One of them says...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Alfred? Bate? Heimert? Levin? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...They have staying power. They can wait. They just grind you down, chew you up, and when the time comes they spit...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The End of the Battle | 3/20/1981 | See Source »

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