Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filled U.S. streets with demonstrators, tore up university campuses, split society and families, dragged down a President and came close to destroying the Army. While the G.I.s of World War II were loved, the grunts of Vietnam, no longer "our boys" in the same way, were reviled and sometimes spit...
...pale in comparison to what it must have been like to be a slave or a black American in the '50s. Even in my most painful and profound encounters with racism, I have never felt the lash of a whip, or been used as a breeding machine, or been spit on for trying to enter a whites only school. Does this mean we have made progress against the foe of racism? Not nearly enough, as I see it. Because even though I may not know the smart of the whip any more than a white person, I do know...
...Starr is running a different kind of spit-and-polish operation, one using all the considerable means at his disposal to corner the President. It would be easy to frame the contest between them as one in which a straitlaced, no-nonsense prosecutor faces off against a slippery, lubricious President. But Starr's single-mindedness in pursuit of the Clintons has raised questions about his own propriety. A lot of them are being put out there, of course, by the President's die-hard defenders, notably by way of Hillary Clinton's charge that the independent counsel is a tool...
...Michael, now is the time to fight," she said. "Don't leave us." Someone felt a faint pulse. Rory turned him on his side, so he wouldn't choke as he started breathing again; she wiped her face with snow, then spit out the blood in her mouth. Michael's children knelt, crossed themselves and prayed, "Our Father, who art in heaven..." As paramedics worked, Rory gathered the children up and told them to think good thoughts...
...Tyson's teeth Bite Me, Part II: in his bout with Evander Holyfield, Iron Mike chomped twice on the heavyweight champ's ear; he lost the fight and, for a year, his license to box. Poor Tyson: he should have tried team sports. Then he could kick a photographer, spit on refs, attack fans--and get a fat contract peddling overpriced sneakers to underprivileged kids...