Word: spits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...these troubled times. On staggering volume of 2 million shares (this by 2:30), the tech index took a smaller version of the Dow's early dive but steadily regained ground throughout the day and by late afternoon was into the black. Credit Intel, Sun Microsystems (which flubbed and spit out a good earnings report a few hours early) and Microsoft for leading the charge...
...many teens, vegetarianism is a passionately felt moral imperative. Says high school senior Claire Leavitt, 17, who spit out meat as an infant: "Animals are a part of nature, and we can live without killing them for our taste buds." Lorraine Glennon, Claire's mom and a magazine editor in New York City, eventually went veggie too. "After a while I realized I had no good answer for the question 'How can you eat animals?'" says Glennon. Riva Detweiler, a 12-year-old from Lexington, Mass., who occasionally eats chicken, says she started to connect meat eating to killing animals...
What he was thinking was that this is the application that finally unleashes the potential of the Web, the viral growth possibilities of the community, the transgressive power of the Internet to leap over barriers and transform our assumptions about business, content and culture. He just couldn't spit out the words to convince his fellow programmers that his idea could change the world...
...only really condescended once - these people know what misogyny means, Al - and he managed to squeeze in everything he's ever stood for and every slogan he's ever spit out. And in politics, that's a good performance. He even did a couple of mini-Sister Souljahs, once when he set his jaw and told a redhead he was opposed to any form of marijuana legalization (see it here in Real Video on slow fast or broadband connections), and once at the end, challenging a young hip-hop Turk to "become the change you want in the world," instead...
...Many soldiers let the perceived power go to their heads, and that power was abused" one unidentified soldier told investigators. "Soldiers would spit on locals, push them on the streets, poke the women with sticks, and generally act like barbarians." On one occasion, after a boy had obtained permission to take some soldiers' photograph, one of the troops grabbed his camera and smashed it on the ground, the report said. This happened after they had agreed to let them take their picture," a U.S. Army civilian interpreter told investigators. "This," the report concluded, "was an unprovoked attack on a child...