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Word: spitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian Spit. In a tiny hut filled with wood smoke, crowded with two cots and a rough-hewn table carrying a candle and scattered papers, ragged, tousle-haired young Churchill shook hands with me. Pribichevich, you have the biggest story of the war! In fact since my father escaped from the Boers, no one has had such a story to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Down the Blue Hip | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest of us did, and the Russian general and I rolled cigarets for him, pasting them with our tongues. Mine would always fall apart in Churchill's fingers, which caused him to remark, "Pribichevich, the Russian spit is stronger than yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Down the Blue Hip | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...spit on Great Wall of China a multi-hued rainbow rises above Gobi Desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Look Out, Chicago | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Fiesta. Omaha simultaneously celebrated Don't Spit on the Sidewalks Week and Clean Up Your Plate Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Playboy Prince. Umberto's kingly education was a gaudy business. As a playboy princeling, he had some un-engaging ways: he was known to spit on the floors of houses where he was guest, grind his heels into priceless tables, organize treasure-hunt games and insist that every prize be a princely bauble. In Rome in 1930 he married Marie-José, only daughter of Belgium's beloved King Albert. Umberto's subsequent infidelities were on a royal scale. Marie-José wept, but did not go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Willing Umberto | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

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