Word: spitted
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...heard from again. The obscurity of the office prompted then vice-president Theodore Roosevelt to complain that it was "not a stepping stone to anything but oblivion," and FDR's first vice president. John Nance Garner, to say that the post was worth less than "a pitcher of warm spit...
...Lowells coped, through their writing, with the difficulty of being a legacy of the "American aristocracy." The world expected rigidly defined behavior and achievement from the Lowells, but at the same time it chewed and swallowed those Lowells who did conform to its strangely-conceived notion of aristocracy. It spit back only the truly talented, individual and interesting morsels like James, Amy and Robert...
...musical out of the nostalgic past has its ardent fans, and Brigadoon addicts will doubtless be entranced by the show's reappearance at Broadway's Majestic Theater. This revival is handled with tender loving care-and professional spit and polish. Brigadoon's spindly, implausible book was a glaring weakness, even in 1947, but that scarcely matters to the true believers who embrace the show as a dewy fantasy...
...treated like a baby or being treated like a piece of crap, opts for the latter. She sincerely believes that by remaining in an institution that denies her any individuality or free will, she can gain some sense of identity. Her ridiculous transformation begins ; before long she's a spit-and-polish fighter, marching proudly, singing "I'm not afraid to die." She begins signing her letters "Private B." No name, just her rank. She hasn't found her identity, the Army has consumed...
...estimated 180,000 as a result of desertions and purges; 250 generals had been replaced by inexperienced officers or by military-minded mullahs. Said a Pentagon expert: "In order to move full steam into a war like the one where they now find themselves, the Iranians should have been spit polishing, shining and checking that machinery day by day. Apparently a lot of it has just been sitting there since the revolution...