Word: maw
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...home broke down. He called a repairman to fix the intricate device, but the man had no success. So Thornton did the job himself in a Thornton-like way. He gave the problem some thought, then simply got an empty Coke bottle and dropped it smack into the maw of the machine, which came to life immediately and chewed the bottle to bits...
Plans for the Chair and the establishment of a committee to raise the money were announced Saturday by Erwin N. Griswold. Dean of the Law School, and Carlyle E. Maw, chairman of the Harvard Law School Fund...
...some special part of the Communion Service she is coming to hear--she cannot say exactly what, but she fears it comes early and is afraid she'll miss it. Some precious words, maybe only a half dozen that will fill in a black chink, or a gaping maw more and more she is sure exists in her otherwise peaceful and contented soul. Only recently has the need for the refill become obvious, although the cavity may have been there longer...
...songs that make up folk music. " Texas-born, Carolyn studied at the American Theater Wing before turning to folk singing, includes Spanish songs and Southern blues, sung flat-out in a mewing Texas twang that sounds just right for the likes of I will Fly Away: One bright maw'nin When this world is over, Ah'll fly away To that land On God's celestial shore, I'll fly away, fly away...
...whatever-it-is that so boldly distinguishes us from the other side. Any other group, we mean to say, could quickly and competently--even if quite unconsciously--be drawn into the value system of those people, much as an unthinking speck of muck can be unwittingly scooped into the maw of a Hoover suction machine. But not the YAF: their duty is clear-cut. They must go, in our name, to Helsinki, to watch, observe, calculate, devise, scheme--and perhaps (who can say?) even learn something about the realities of international politics...