Word: spits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fans yell, shriek, and threaten to topple the upper deck. Ours can barely spit...
...open prairie "the sky gap(es) like an open mouth." Peck's language renders, "My face felt swollen and shapeless, like a moldy orange, as though grief had been shoved into my mouth like a handful of seeds, but I didn't know what to do, whether to spit, or just swallow...
...additional 45 minutes pass, then shouts erupt. Necks crane toward a small, bright cloud that has formed in a virtually cloudless sky. Video cameras whir, and Polaroids spit out pictures. People whisper about the experience they have just shared. The announcer declares, "The Virgin Mary will now bless us." Arms extend portraits of Jesus, crucifixes and other % icons for blessing. Then Fowler steps onto the porch to relay Mary's words: "Pray and sacrifice, please...
When the Treasury Department ordered chess genius Bobby Fischer to obey U.S. sanctions and forgo a $5 million match in Yugoslavia last fall, Fischer, the sole American-born world chess champion, delivered an unambiguous reply: he spit on the department's letter. He also won the match. Now that a federal jury has issued a warrant for Fischer's arrest, the misanthropic grandmaster continues his defiance, telling a Belgrade newspaper that he will play additional matches there...
Remember: Some Stars Are Worth the Paycheck. He broods, suicidally, about his blindness. He snarls orders like the Army lieutenant colonel he once was. He pretends to a worldliness that is not entirely authentic, and he can't quite hide the arrested adolescent lurking beneath his spit, polish and bluster. Frank Slade is a piece of work, all right, and playing him Al Pacino is always an actor acting -- in love with his own prodigious technique. For which, thank heaven, it permits him to range boldly outside the conventional lines of Bo Goldman's script for Scent of a Woman...