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Word: spouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the tops of their heads Did they mutter and spout, And erudite words Came tumbling...

Author: By Sue Brown, | Title: The Professor Who Has Everything | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...their leaders try to project an up-to-date image, sounding reasonable on TV talk shows and often wearing sober business suits. But at their rallies in the dark of night, today's self-styled knights of the Ku Klux Klan still wear white robes, burn crosses and spout the racist rhetoric of their grandfathers in the Klan's hey day of the 1920s, when klaverns across the country claimed millions of members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Klan Rides Again | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...cataracts and huricanoes, spout...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Not the Promis'd End | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Cubans are a patriotic people, proud of the accomplishments of their revolution. But their feelings cannot be assessed only from the formulaic wall-posters which spout platitudes like "We confront the future with the experience of 20 years and the enthusiasm of the first day." One must witness, as I did many times during my visit, joyous occasions when audiences broke into spontaneous cheers and the singing of revolutionary songs. On July 25, the eve of the anniversary of the revolution, a boisterous nightclub hushed to a reverential silence as a popular singer began the national anthem. The audience displayed...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Castro's Cuba: Stranger in a Strange Land | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

...genuinely 13-year-old Juliet, but like Hughes she lacks essential vocal control. She tries to press her small voice to impassioned heights, and the result is an embarrassing sound somewhere between a whine and a scream. And at heated moments, she has a habit of trying to spout an entire line of pentameter verse in one breath...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Wherefore Art? | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

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