Word: spitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czar curtly, assigning to the hero some impossible task, I will have you shot. A King, enraged at his wife, wishes to hang her. But his friends counsel moderation: "Rather, build a chapel next to the church, and put your wife in it; whoever goes to Mass is to spit in her face...
...trim cruisers and destroyers clear their throats and spit...
When it was over, the guest of honor, a fat, button-nosed oldster who is regarded by his cronies as the spit & image of Jiggs, hustled back to work. George McManus was a little worried at taking two hours for lunch, even if Mr. Hearst was paying the bill...
Russia's music is systematically organized-from the mightiest flames of Russian creative inspiration down to the lowliest tuba spit valve. A Soviet bureau called Glavnoe Musicalno Pravelenya (Glavmus for short) spends over 6,000,000 rubles a year ($1,200,000) keeping Soviet composers well-fed and commissioning them to write operas and symphnies. It even runs a "composers' country house" at Ivanovo, about 100 kilometers from Moscow, where all good Russian composers go in the summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces...
Basic to Maneuvers. The Army proposes to start with nine weeks of basic training-hygiene and sanitation, enough spit & polish to make a presentable soldier, enough marching and drilling to put on a presentable parade...