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Word: spitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stench of bodies strewn along Hell Point and across the Tenaru spit was strong. Many of them lay at the water's edge, and already were puffed and glossy, like shiny sausages. Some of the bodies had been partially buried by wave-washed sand; you might see a grotesque, bloated head or twisted torso sprouting from the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solomons: First Seven Weeks | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...most unsavory pottage of all, as Chang soon found. For ten years he was a puppet in a conquered land. It was a mess he could not spit out, a mess from which he could not flee. The people of Free China would never again trust Chang. There was only one way out. Finally he took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Noble End of Chang Ching-hui | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

Cats enthrall Heroine Irene Dubrovna (Simone Simon). When she is awake, her subcutaneous felinity makes real cats arch & spit; when she is asleep, cats pad across her brain. She believes legends to the effect that her medieval Serbian ancestors were half-cats, and that she cannot let husband Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) kiss her lest she sprout claws and rip him apart. Psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Tom Conway) delivers sermons on over-imagination. The tactless husband discusses Simone with Alice-at-the-office (Jane Randolph), gradually succumbs to her sympathy. After Alice is ambushed three times by Simone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

From these brief maxims young Washington was clearly a fussy eater. "Spit [not] forth the Stones of any fruit Pye," he warned. "Cleanse not your Teeth with the Table Cloth." Washington also barred spitting during meals ("except there's a Necessity for it") and getting rid of edibles by throwing them under the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: First in Good Manners | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Marines had killed five times as many men as they had lost. This they had done in three battles and many minor patrols. The first took place to the east of the beach head when a whole battalion of Japs tried to force the Tenaru River across a narrow spit (TIME, Sept. 28). Machine guns and tanks caught them, and 670 bodies were found in the jungle and on the sand. Later 120 more bodies washed in from the sea. The second battle came in mid-September, when the Japs tried to force Lunga Ridge to the South, nearly succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Patch of Destiny | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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