Word: spitted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Zeus's job is to store electricity gradually, as in a huge storage tank, and then spit it out as a short but enormously powerful jolt of energy. And Zeus is dangerous, a fact well known to every one of the electricians who swarm over it. The least of Zeus's bolts could burn them to a crisp. When Dr. Tom Putnam, physicist in charge, gets ready to ask Zeus to hurl a trial thunderbolt, he takes elaborate precautions. First he locks the monster in its room. Then he starts the "permissive chain" on the control board...
Fiorello! The early career of New York's colorful mayor comes alive as a bright and pleasant musical. With Spit-and-Image Tom Bosley...
...really say anything about music is to write music." To Bernstein, the flute included by Beethoven in an early version of the Fifth Symphony's opening is like "a delicate lady at a club smoker"; The Black Crook, an early musicomedy, is held together with "spit and chewing gum"; tonality is analogous to a baseball diamond (with home plate as the tonic note); the opening of the third act of La Boheme is a series of "cold, empty fifths, raining like snowflakes over the stage...
...counter-part of freedom, both political and existential. "We must condemn what deserves condemnation; it should be done with vigor and then put aside. But what still deserves to be praised should be exalted at length...I have never been able to make up my mind to spit, as so many have done, on the world 'honor...
Edison became the world symbol of Yankee ingenuity and looked and acted the part. Moonfaced, with a lock of hair flopping across his brow and a plug of chewing tobacco in his cheek (instead of a spittoon, he would spit on the floor "because you can't miss it"), Edison had acid-stained hands, an explosive vocabulary and a pioneer's instinct for practical jokes. He spouted the slogans of agrarian radicals, railed at U.S. colleges for stuffing students with "Latin, Philosophy and all that ninny stuff," and fiercely defended his agnostic opinions...