Word: spitted
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...fell, the people knew the war was lost. Those who had been in the U.S. (including the merchant prince) knew it was hopeless when it started. The merchant poured three drinks and toasted the Americans: "To your safe arrival." The Mayor of Yokosuka, whom U.S. newsmen described as the spit & image of Tojo, toasted President Truman...
...acquaintance will not help them now. Bob Eichelberger is a genial, dryly humorous extrovert with a consuming interest in people and an infinite capacity for liking them. But he is also a steel-hard soldier with a vast respect for unbending discipline and the same reverent regard for spit & polish that he got at the U.S. Military Academy almost 40 years ago. Tokyo's Japs can expect fair and efficient treatment. But no monkey business. And no favors...
Then the break came. At No. 39 Broadway detectives discovered a portly, florid, mustached man who seemed to be the spit & image of the forger bank tellers remembered...
...Christi's luxurious Driscoll Hotel. She had built the place in a typically willful gesture, after dressing down the manager of another house where she didn't like the service, and promising him she would put up a hotel of her own, tall enough for her to spit...
General George S. Patton Jr., in Hamilton, Mass., represented the spit-&-polish school with a formal bow over the hand of a little girl who had presented him with a bouquet...