Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is opportunity for wild humor in the outcroppings Humphrey must negotiate in his scramble to the top-the office sweater girl; an addled old clerk who has sandbagged his office with 67 filing cabinets full of senselessly duplicated detritus dating from 1939: and a villainous colonel whose spit-and-demolish approach to bureaucracy reaches peaks of brassbound unreason. But Drohan shows no real talent for his chosen business, satire; instead, he insists on trying to make the reader take Humphrey's doubts and flounderings seriously. A Candide may get into frightful predicaments, but under the rules...
...Wheeler's uncivil disobedience unfolded in an air of solemnity as four Air Force officers sat in judgment at U.S. Fifth Air Force headquarters in Fuchu, 19 miles from Tokyo. As everyone knew, the ceremonial Honor Guard, to which Wheeler belonged, was the very model of modern spit and polish: 70 frozen-faced six-footers, strictly disciplined, heads closely cropped, attended by twelve pants-pressers, twelve shoeshine boys, two full-time tailors, and bevies of shy, eye-batting Japanese girls. Yet Airman Wheeler, a rebellious sort who did not like his job anyway, disregarded the orders of his superior...
...love: "Whether you're a schoolteacher, advertising man or missionary, a great part of love basically will still be sex. Naturally, when I say love I'm not talking about those sudden urges or something that men are subject to." On drinking: "We must not spit on alcoholism...
...Ugly. Then, abrupt as a blow, came Les Demoiselles d' Avignon, a painting done in 1907 depicting five dramatic salmon-pink nudes, their faces hideous as primitive African masks. On seeing the painting, French Painter Georges Braque gasped: "You are asking us to drink petrol in order to spit fire." Today, Demoiselles, which made primitive art an accepted fountainhead of modern art, has only the dated quality of yesteryear's manifesto. But it marked a significant break in art history, ushering in an age in which art is no longer the readily grasped reaffirmation of everyman...
...when someone asked Picasso what he would do if France became a satellite and he was ordered to paint the party line, Picasso exploded: "If they stopped my painting, I would draw on paper. If they put me in prison without paper or pencil, I would draw with spit on the cell walls...