Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose blindness Jesus cured, only one tells in the Bible the sensation of his new vision. He was the blind man of Bethsaida. Jesus "spit on his eyes, and put His hands upon him, [and] asked him if he saw ought." The blind man "looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking." (Mark...
...except as a protege of old Paul von Hindenburg. Last week he stood at the German zenith. He had just put through an unpopular budget against hot opposition, ahead of time. He had forced the niggling Reichstag to dissolve until October. And he had fashioned a sharp spit on which to cook the goose of Adolf Hitler, "the pocket Mussolini...
...Mechanic Kassay let his friend into a secret: the Akron would never take the air. Kassay would see to that; he had his own reasons. See how simple: you spit between the sections that are to be riveted ?so. In the cold up here, the spittle freezes?but the riveter cannot see because it looks silvery, like the duralumin, so he drives his rivet in. Then next June when they launch the ship, the warm air will thaw the spittle, the rivet will be loose. Soon something may happen...
...Jersey City, N. J., James ("Valley") Smith, 30, was shot several times. One bullet struck his chin, entered his mouth, knocked out a tooth. When surgeons hunted the bullet, he explained: "I spit it out." Wire At Grand Rapids, Mich., Charles Garnett, Mike Eikelbery, and Everett Glazier were arrested for stealing 150 mi. of copper wire which they dismantled while the lines were charged with 144,000 volts. Near Middletown, N. Y. Fred Woods saw a deer drop dead while crossing a field, followed it, dropped dead by its side. Both had touched a broken high tension wire...
...almost comically heavy tragedy, are the inevitable result of attempts to tell of Life in the North Carolina Mts., the Norwegian fjords, the Normandy fishing villages, or the Scottish Highlands, but "Gallows' Orchard" has none of these faults. It suggests power and strength without making its principal character spit tobacco juice on his or her hands. Its catastrophe really is tragic, and even though the whole story is one of tragedy, it is not lacking in beauty...