Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parties have continued to mouth the old phrases and flaunt the old slogans . . . behind the scenes they have surrendered abjectly to big business interests and become their errand boys...
...program and politics, Roman Catholic members taxied across Washington to the new Georgetown (Roman Catholic) Dental School and formed, according to the suggestion of Cardinal O'Connell of Boston (TiME, Dec. 24, 1928), the National Guild of St. Apollonia. St. Apollonia had her teeth broken out of her mouth, for torture...
...toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam on the blaze, snuffed it out. Grim and taciturn, the Kinley boys glanced up as the explosion took place, then plodded away without looking back...
...third round Sharkey ran out of his corner and forced Loughran against the ropes and hit him high on the jaw. Loughran sat down. Five seconds later he got up and began to walk along the side of the ring, holding onto the top rope, and feeling his mouth with his glove. Something about his attitude suddenly gave the people at the ringside the shocking realization that he was unconscious. Later that night after Sharkey, jubilant, had gone to a nightclub with his wife, the rumor that Loughran had died of the punch on his way out of the stadium...
...project covers almost every square mile of arid area in Turkestan down to the Afghanistan boundary and northward to the 42nd parallel, which is at the mouth of the Amudaria River, and includes the great plains over which Tamerlane, Alex ander the Great and other warriors marched their conquering but weary hordes...