Word: spittoon
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...nasty little man." Ruthless and arrogant, the tiny (4ft. 11-in.) Vice Premier is considerably different in style from his urbane predecessor. He lacks Chou's subtlety and sinuous charm, not to mention his manners. In the middle of a conversation, he will often expectorate noisily into a handy spittoon. "You must forgive me," he may say. "I am just a country...
...desk was a copy of a new English edition of his collected speeches. On the floor was a small white spittoon. On a side table were that day's issues of the ten major Soviet newspapers. Nearby were photographs of his meetings with President Nixon in Moscow last year and with Chancellor Willy Brandt on the Black...
...curious. Is the odd-looking vessel so strategically placed at the feet of Premier Chou En-lai during audiences with Western visitors [Aug. 23] a spittoon, a good, old-fashioned chamber pot, an incense burner or a Chicom fire extinguisher used for dampening Western overtures? (MRS.) ANDREA R. WALCOTT Kingston, Jamaica...
...vessel is a spittoon, a common feature in Chinese offices and homes...
...Johnny Little, known as "the keeper of the cuspidor," cautions: "No licorice or other foreign matter mixed in." One by one the spitters toe the line, legs spread. They draw two fingers to the ends of their mouths, rock back like drawn bowstrings and let fly toward a distant spittoon. Don Snyder reaches the finals but loses the accuracy contest to Hulon Craft, a distant nephew of old George. Hulon comes to within 1 ½ inches of a spittoon 15 feet away...