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Word: spitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoping against hope that out of one of themWill come the reason for it all; and alwaysOut pops the arid chuckle and centuriesOf cuckoo-spit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot and Fry: Modern Verse Drama | 3/21/1950 | See Source »

When his audience stopped laughing, Churchill got grim again. Said he: "I hope to live to see the British democracy spit all this rubbish from their lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Comedy in Cardiff | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...story into ready political capital. When readers of Le Monde started sending money and gifts to Duval, Humanité snorted: "The workers want no alms . . ." Later it added: "Plumber, take the gifts in money and kind that the grand bourgeois of Le Monde will throw you, then spit in the faces of those people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hate, Hate, Hate! | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...spit-and-scratch school of society reporting in the nation's capital, two of the sharpest-clawed are Austine McDonnell Cassini Hearst of the Washington Times-Herald and Evelyn Peyton Gordon March of the Washington Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: So They Say | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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