Word: spitted
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...slanting, catlike, green eyes; she bobbed her hair and wore black bangs with spit curls. She was hardly out of her teens when the Left Bank became the last stop for the lost generation. Suddenly she was"'Kiki of Montparnasse"-a mascot. She is the sensuous young nude in the misty photographs in which Man Ray typed the period...
...Thomas feels. Most of all, he needs "a house to go back to . . . whenever he breaks down." The home Thomas can always go back to ("Nothing's any good in London") is in his native Wales, at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. "It's lovely, on the sea. You can spit right into the sea from our window, and we frequently do-all the time, in fact. I potter in the morning; I'm a very good potterer. I shop, I go to the village, walk around and speak to people. It's a short street and it takes...
...trouble is, each stage must be enormously larger than the next stage. Rocket men argue endlessly about the details, but the more sensible ones believe that it would take a multi-stage rocket as big as an ocean liner to spit even a jeep-sized space ship free of the earth...
Once upon a time there was a poor man. He was not meek in spirit, but lazy, mean, vituperative and usually drunk. He stood all day long, a beggar, by the church in a little French town, and when anyone gave him alms, he was apt to curse and spit and swipe at them with his stick for thanks. Everybody despised him, and he despised everybody...
...town a rich man. He was compassionate and tireless (though tactful) in charitable works. Everybody loved him, and he loved everybody-even the unworthy poor man. He gave the beggar a cottage on the castle grounds, and said nothing when his guest swore, drank, tracked mud on the floor, spit on the rugs, ate like a hog and threw a glass of water in the butler's face. Everybody told the rich man that he was a fool to waste his time and money on such an ingrate-he was beyond help...