Word: spits
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...taken on a distinctly unpleasant edge in recent weeks as a wave of nationalist anger has roiled China. "Simon, you will be hated by 1.3 billion Chinese," someone wrote in response to my blog post about the chaotic progress of the Olympic torch through London. "Hope someday someone will spit on your face. Your name will be recorded in Chinese history book forever as one of cold blooded, Hitler-type, murder's assistant...
...that the pressure of international scrutiny would spur reform within the totalitarian nation. Yet even as China has constructed arenas, stadiums, and playing fields, positive steps towards a heightened respect for human rights have yet to materialize. In addition to English lessons and etiquette campaigns (don’t spit, don’t slurp, line up politely), Chinese officials have also razed neighborhoods and evicted citizens, arrested foreign reporters, tightened control in Tibet, and increased military cooperation with Sudan. Undoubtedly and unfortunately, the potential for human rights improvement as a consequence of the Olympic spotlight has not been realized...
While Japanese fans cheered the lightning series, the country's baseball organization, the Nippon Professional Baseball league (NPB) grumbled. Its best players are migrating to the States. American games are cutting into the Japanese pastime's TV ratings. And now this latest spit in its eye just as NPB opening week commenced. Complained Yomiuri Giants pitching star Koji Uehara, "We're just starting our season. So why does the MLB have to come to play here. There's nothing to be gained from this." Added a Japanese professional baseball official, who wished to remain anonymous, "Every time the MLB holds...
...pointed to a pair of gangly-looking guys standing off to one side, wearing sunglasses similar to his. “They thought this would be a great place to meet slutty, freaky Harvard girls.” The ladies seem way too busy dancing for you to spit game at them. “I know man! Who’d have thought that just dancing by myself could be this much fun?” So, next time, can I expect to see you rocking the feathered top-hat, neon hoodie, and pacifier? “Not exactly...
...York Times obituary. Rest assured, Ms. Coulter, that McCain will be around for a while and that your morbid desire to the contrary, fed by your frustrated ego after the rejection of your favorite conservative sweetheart Mitt Romney, is as appalling as your belief that the empty venom you spit is somehow humorous or interesting...