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Word: spitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...judge may rule next month on whether he is competent to stand trial. Until then, he rests in a locked unit at a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York. His brother is outraged at the federal prosecutors. "If I had an American flag in front of me, I would spit on it and burn it," shouted Louis over his car phone last week as he drove to visit his brother. "He should be allowed to come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is The Godfather Insane, or Crazy Like a Fox? | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

Invited to sing the national anthem by the San Diego Padres, the TV comedian seemed bothered by an echo from the sound system. She plugged her ears with her fingers and started shrieking the words. When fans began booing, she grabbed her crotch and spit on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Songbird of the Week | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...engines in their own garages. Although Johnson had to take an enforced break from driving to serve a 10-month bootlegging sentence, his road skills won him 50 races on the NASCAR circuit. A cult developed around him and other cavalier drivers who flouted the law, pocketed good money, spit tobacco and always had great tales to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Real-Life Days of Thunder | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...continues. "Then they start the interrogation. They make you very, very tired, physically and mentally. You forget everything outside after a time. You are utterly alone. There are two of them, and they play good guy and bad guy, the bad guy slapping you and spitting on you. You wonder, 'Where does he get so much spit from?' They dig at your genitals with a boot or a stick. Sometimes they tie you to a pipe so that you cannot stand or sit or kneel and leave you that way for days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Intifadeh Of the Soul | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...behavior and sexual politics. Assuming the character of a rapist or an abusive husband, Finley acts out the darkest imaginings of men, the furies of mind and body that she sees as the source of degradations suffered by women. In the process, she fills the stage with shrieks and spit, sometimes stripping off her clothes and smearing food across her body. In a now legendary piece that she introduced several years ago, she slathered yams around her buttocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talented Toiletmouth | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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