Word: spits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worried that I had somehow misattributed this fine-tuned criticism to gender issues, so I looked long and hard for men that were picked on about their appearance. However, even the harshest critique of President Clinton or Bob Dole in jogging shorts were nothing compared to the venom spit during the Hillary Clinton headband debate...
...with a sharp sense of humor, refers blithely to the time "when Daddy kidnapped us," and remembers going to bed with her shoes on so she could run to the neighbors for help. "I got used to the hitting part," Mandy says, "but what I hated was when he spit in her face or slung food." Ask Kay's son Joe, 12, whether he remembers any happy times with his dad, and he tells stories of outings that end in car crashes or fighting. Other friends and relatives trade Jackie tales like essential bits of oral history. They tell about...
...Roberto Alomar He didn't say it, he sprayed it. The Baltimore Oriole second baseman spit on umpire John Hirschbeck after an argument in Toronto toward the end of the regular season, then compounded his sin by saying Hirschbeck hasn't been the same since his son died of a neurological disease. After Alomar was given an absurdly lenient suspension (five games next season rather than in the postseason), he became the chew toy in a dogfight among the players, umpires and baseball executives. The real damage, though, was done to Alomar's name. He may never shake his spitting...
When the Baltimore Orioles' Roberto Alomar spit in the face of an umpire [Sport, Oct. 14], baseball presented a perfect microcosmic example of the decline of American culture, from the loss of leadership, courage and reasoned authority at the owner and governing level to the loss of sportsmanship, work ethic and basic respect at the player level. In order to remain a fan over the past few years, I have concentrated on the game itself and avoided the surrounding drama. Now, however, there is no place to avert my eyes, for the nastiest scene yet has taken place right...
...spit in my foreman's face, would I be going in to work the next day? I don't think so. JOE FONDE Langhorne, Pennsylvania...