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...robust Iowans will take over the door spit structure at the corner of Bow and Mr. Auburn Streets in a public ceremony at 1:15 p.m. tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Yields Field To'Toon's Humor | 10/25/1950 | See Source »

...eyed ex-Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, 68, stepped out of Rome's Montecelios Military Hospital into a hail of newspaper invective. From his villa east of Rome, the white-maned old "Lion of Neghelli" retorted to a columnist who had attacked him in the daily Il Paese. "I spit on your face a thousand times," he wrote. "You are a disgusting coward and I am sure you are very dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Brimming Cup | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...carefully planted by the Americans which lit up the enemy soldiers and made them perfect targets. Lummis' guns would tear into them. Then, when the tanks themselves got close enough, Lummis' bazookamen-who had orders to hold fire until the enemy was nearly upon them -began to spit death & destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: At the Bowling Alley | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...Formosa Hold? In the six months that it took for the U.S. to make up its mind, the Reds had built up a sizable invasion fleet. The Red dragon began to spit fire; Communist leaders made belligerent statements about how.they would liberate Formosa and crush Chiang. Would Formosa be the dragon's next bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Man On The Dike | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...turned to the Indians. One John Lawson records how the Indians bought their liquor-by the mouthful. "And for this purpose the buyer always makes choice of his man, which is one that has the greatest mouth, whom he brings to the market with a bowl" to spit the liquor in. "The seller looks narrowly to the man's mouth that measures it, and if he happens to swallow any down . . . the merchant . . . does not scruple to knock the fellow down . . . Thereupon the buyer finds another mouthpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Looking Glass | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

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