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...demonstrative, downs huge breakfasts of such dishes as stuffed cabbage, and sometimes at formal receptions he handles his chopsticks like a coolie, shoving bowl to mouth and shoveling. He likes to hunt (duck and tiger). He may erupt into sudden violence. Considering someone he dislikes, he will sometimes spit across the room and snarl, "dirty type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Beleaguered Man | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Festival (by Sam and Bella Spewack) takes place in the rococo sunroom of a music impresario. Phones blare, tempers explode, rival artists snarl and spit. Then a lady music teacher arrives with a child prodigy to make things really hum. Soon she is rumored to be a famous pianist's discarded mistress and the prodigy their illegitimate son. With the child's real father suspecting his wife, and a lady cellist buzzing with sex. it all suggests a game of musical sofas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Week in Manhattan | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...Spit in the Face. A few hours later, Edvard Kardelj, the No. 2 man in Yugoslavia, the man who prosecuted Djilas and is now running the country while Titc is away, spoke up. "Every honest man would spit in the face of 'politicians' of this type," he told a party gathering at Sarajevo. That Djilas and Dedijer should air their grievances abroad, he said, represents "a filthy blackmail of our democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Heresy in Titolcmd | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

Privation. In The Pas, Manitoba, Cree Indian Sam Umperville, 82, oldest resident on The Pas Reservation, looked about the room he was assigned to in St. Anthony's Hospital, then stalked unceremoniously out the front door, explaining testily, "There's no place to spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

From George J. Nick, Middle Village, N.Y.: "You, sir, are not worthy of being a human being. I would spit on you if I could, but you would not be worthy of my saliva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sickness | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

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