Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family, looked with dismay on isolated instances of Army democracy: officers drinking off-duty with enlisted soldiers, officers soft and indecisive in their enforcement of quick, football-field obedience. There was no question about it: the U.S. Army, model 1941, had plenty of steam, but it lacked snap, dash, spit & polish...
Their training in the school imparted, in big doses, what many civilians think the Army lacks: snap. They were drilled in the spit-&-polish tradition that is the hallmark of all good outfits. They got demerits for not placing their shoes properly under their beds, for sloppy appearance, for languid carriage. More important, they got an intensive course in weapons, from the Garand rifle to the machine gun and the mortar. They took turns commanding their own companies...
...decade which began Sept. 18, 1931 echoed with hollow words of peace. It knew no peace worth the name. Down through the decade came the rattle of musketry in the Shanghai Incident (1932), the spit of rifle-fire in the Chaco (1932-35), the bursting of bombs in Ethiopian villages (1935-36), the volleys of firing squads in Spanish bull rings (1936-39), the screams of murdered Chinese civilians (1937-?), the tramp of Nazi boots through Austria (1938) and Czecho-Slovakia (1939), and at last the mounting crescendo of World...
...Shah grew in power, his mistrust of British Imperialism grew with it and he began to spit in the Lion's eye. In 1931 he forbade Imperial Airways to fly over Iranian territory. Spit most staggering to the Lion was his sudden cancellation in 1932 of the old William Knox D'Arcy contract which had now burgeoned into the monster British Government-subsidized Anglo-Persian (later Anglo-Iranian) Oil Co. Iran was getting 16% of the net profits. The Shah wanted 21%. The British took the squabble before the League of Nations. The Shah got what he wanted...
...plutocracy hate the Führer and his system. He has established a social form in which order, cleanliness and clarity reign. . . . These war and inflation profiteers, these fat capitalists and devoted Jewish servants, these perjurers of their own election promises, deserve only that the German people contemptuously spit at them and return again to its work; thus do we want to work and fight until humanity is freed from this scourge...