Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...labor, vote for Kennedy, then drummed up old-fashioned party loyalty everywhere else. They got an unexpected break in the last week, courtesy of Republican Congressman Bruce Alger, who egged on the group of rowdy Republicans who jostled Johnson and his wife Lady Bird in a Dallas hotel lobby, spat at him, roughed up his wife's hair. Johnson therefore played the martyr's role like an old pro. Dallas County stayed as Republican as ever-Nixon got 149,333 votes, 23,972 more than Ike's 1956 mark-but in the central and east Texas rural...
...happened. The perfect way both to fight for one's rights and at the same time to convince one's opponent that one is not an uncontrolled savage, is to fight, to resist--non-violently. The pictures and stories of Negroes at lunch counters and on picket lines, being spat upon, cursed, struck, beaten, dragged away and yet never speaking back, never lifting a limb in self-defense--this "new Negro" broke the image of slovenly, slap-happy, sex-and violence- ridden Sambo, and dramatically demonstrated his commitment to middle class ethics...
...shouted: "I am not prepared to see my loved ones go up in radioactive dust so that we should act as a lightning conductor-as decoy duck-to draw enemy fire on our heads to divert it from New York and Chicago." In some replies to Gaitskellites, "NATO" was spat out like a dirty word. Fiery Michael Foot demanded that imperial Britain, to avoid obliteration, should become a neutralist country "like India, Indonesia, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Ghana...
...26th birthday-and it ended up in a neurological clinic in Nice, where the diagnosis was barbiturate poisoning, plus slight wrist lacerations. Brigitte's periodically estranged husband, Cinemactor Jacques Charrier, far off on the other side of Southern France, in Biarritz, where he had gone after their latest spat, jumped in a car to drive to her side. At week's end the aging "Sex Kitten" of French moviedom was recovering. Paris' deadly serious Le Monde, customarily oblivious to BB, accorded her a sort of ghoulish obituary-in-life: "Once upon a time there was a starlet...
...That is America," spat Khrushchev derisively. "The supreme culture! It's shameful! I ask you, have you seen or heard anything like that in our country?" From NBC's onetime Moscow Commentator Joseph Michaels came the reply: "What about the demonstration in front of the American embassy in Moscow a few years back? Here there are only 100 demonstrators. There it was 100,000!" Khrushchev shot back: "Yes, we could have made it 200,000 or a million! That was in reply to the one here! In our country it's a tooth for a tooth...