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Word: spits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Additional officers from Harvard and Cambridgeassisted in the arrest. But when they attempted tohandcuff the suspect, John Farrell, Robert'sbrother, spit into the face and chest of one ofthe arresting officers...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Armed Robber Hits Business School Coop | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...exploits of King Christian: "His sword was hammering so fast/ Through Gothic helm and brain it passed." Or the Chinese, whose national ditty is a paean to the prospect of "using our flesh and blood to build a new Great Wall." Guatemalans are admonished never to permit "tyrants to spit in thy face." And who could forget the immortal words in the second verse of the Bulgarian national song: "Countless warriors bravely die/ For the people's sacred cause." Such a roster would be incomplete without the heady draught of carnage served up by Maryland's state hymn, dating from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Meddling with the Marseillaise | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...been spit on before," McHugh adds. "It's their right to be in the bar--they come at you full force. We don't react to that well...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: FAKING IT IN HARVARD SQUARE | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

Thirteen seconds. Enough time to spit. To blow your nose. And, as Harvard proved, to win a Beanpot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Back At 40 Years of the 'Pot, Nine Harvard Trophies | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...vandals] spit gum on the roof and saw no one was in the cruiser," Cooper said. "They must have run backand gotten the chair, thrown it and ran like abastard...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vandals Smash Police Car | 1/31/1992 | See Source »

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