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Word: spitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is one kind of hombre that clogs up Dooley's craw so tight he can hardly spit: the professional gambler. When Bret Maverick (James Garner) rides into town in search of buried gold, Deputy Diefendorfer has no trouble spotting him for the cardsharp he really is. "He's wearing a clean white shirt and a black necktie," explains Diefendorfer, "and he's winning, Muster Dooley." Outraged, Marshal Dooley heaves Maverick out of town, has to repeat the performances twice more when Maverick keeps sneaking back. "We're sure getting some strange breeds in Ellwood lately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Parodies Regained | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...villains we know. The scabs who would just as soon spit in Mrs. Bella H.'s dimming eyes as destroy this nation's chance for harmony and well-being are the fat men in blue serge suits who don't know the first principle of economics. If you spend more than you've got in the bank, poverty and God knows what else results...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Comfort and Joy | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...wholesale terror past but still a vivid memory, China is ruled by a weapon sometimes called "brute reason"-the knowledge that each man has no alternative. On trains, in city squares and village centers, loudspeakers blare away from dawn till midnight, urging China's millions not to spit in the street, and to "work hard for a few years, live happily for a thousand." In schools, factories and offices the walls are plastered layers deep with painstakingly handwritten posters of exhortation and criticism: "Professor Chen's teaching methods are strictly reactionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Year of the Leap | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...What did you buy a ticket for if you don't stay the whole game?" Sebbie spit back. "So long...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Prince and the Pauper | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

Will the space you're so rich in Light a fire in the kitchen, Or the little god of space turn the Spit, spit, spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hell Is Here | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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