Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eads and shaking them up and down in a sack. The children don't want to see that." Another housewife complained of cooking odors, "All that garlic or whatever it is," so unlike smells the English feel at home with, like boiled cabbage. Said a third: "They spit...
...that often uses a shovel instead of a rapier, a backslap instead of a boot, Mauldin, 39, wields the hottest editorial brush in the U.S. Full of caustic and rebellious passions, he boils over onto his drawing board with the scalding effect of a well-aimed spit of lava. "You've got to be a misanthrope in this business," says Mauldin. "A real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends, and I'll jump. If I see a stuffed shirt, I want to punch it." Mauldin's professional credo...
Constitutionally opposed to authority, Mauldin attacked the military caste system without mercy. "Them buttons wuz shot off when I took this town, sir," growls a slovenly Willie to a spit-and-polish rest-area lieutenant. "One more crack like that," snarls a private to a major, "an' you won't have yer job back after th' war." Inevitably, this kind of enlisted man's license landed Mauldin in trouble. It culminated in a personal confrontation with Lieut. General George S. Patton in Luxembourg...
...habitual front runner-spurted boldly into the lead. Through the backstretch, Panamanian Jockey Braulio Baeza kept Sherluck comfortably second, just off Globemaster's slow pace. For the favored Carry Back, "there was no running room anywhere," said his jockey, Johnny Sellers. "When I called on him, he just spit the bit out." In the stretch, Sherluck overhauled Globemaster to win by 2¼ lengths and pay $132.10 for a $2 ticket. Fifteen lengths behind, Carry Back was a dismal seventh...
...This is not a book This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty...what you will...