Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonentity. It was called "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" (John Adams, the first Vice President), "a fifth wheel to the coach" (Theodore Roosevelt), "as useful as a cow's fifth teat" (Harry Truman), and not worth a "pitcher of warm spit" (John Nance Garner...
...patients aged 7 to 22. He clapped a face mask on his patients twice a day, before meals, and got them to inhale Mucomyst aerosol supplied under gentle pressure by a small pump. After 20 minutes, each bedridden child was turned into assorted head-down positions to help him spit out the mucus. Stronger children got rid of the mucus by taking a short but brisk run, which started them coughing...
...Mental fatigue independent of emotional strain probably never has been measured," says Dr. Kerr. "It takes less energy to think the greatest thought ever thought than it takes to spit...
...John Knowles's A Separate Peace. No one, at any rate, excels Grass in one prerequisite for writing about adolescence-an eye for the entirely incongruous and often grimy details. On a half-submerged minesweeper in Danzig harbor, Mahlke and his classmates cheerfully chew dried seagull droppings and spit them contentedly into the sea. The next moment, before diving to explore the sunken hulk, Mahlke is reverently humming prayers of praise to the Virgin Mary...
...white marlin will trail a trolling boat for miles, inspecting the bait, even tapping it tentatively with its bill, then turn tail and nonchalantly swim away, with curses raining down over its wake. Or it will grab the bait sideways in its jaws, neatly avoiding the hook, then spit it back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto the hook by "racing" the bait (skipping it swiftly along the surface), then suddenly dropping it backward as the openmouthed fish approaches. Even that tactic often fails...