Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toothpaste manufacturers often claim that complex chemicals called anti-enzymes cut down acid formation in the mouth and therefore tooth decay. Three Rochester (N.Y.) researchers ran careful tests and reported: the anti-enzymes reduce acidity all right-but not in the important crevices between the teeth where decay usually occurs...
Professor Dart's new finds came from a cave whose mouth is now 160 ft. above the Makapan River in the Transvaal. The cave's original floor is travertine rock, on which lies more than 50 ft. of sedimentary material. In one of the layers, close to the floor, are bones of Australopithecus prometheus, a small, spry primate whom Professor Dart considers at least semi-human. Prometheus, he says, ate baboons, may have stood upright and may have possessed fire. On the other hand, apparently, he did not know how to make stone tools or weapons...
Prometheus enjoyed the cave for thousands of years, perhaps beginning 200,000 years ago. Then something happened to the cave's mouth. It may have been enlarged by a flood (the river was near then), or perhaps some earth movement directed the current against it. At any rate, the cave filled many feet deep with waterborne gravel. It was still habitable, but prometheus seems to have left...
...crowd around. All at once the bung blows out of the custard vat. Splat! Barrages of goo go glugging in all directions. Jerry tries to plug the hole with his fist. Fffffttt! His feet go silly on the slimy stuff, and down he slathers. "Helpfllgrrulp!" As he opens his mouth to holler, a stream of sweet bilge hoses down his esophagus. In a matter of seconds everybody in sight is wallowing gloriously in orange muck, and the whole scene looks like nothing so much as a Bruegel landscape dipped in batter. The trouble with Three-Ring Circus is that this...
With that, Sir Henry tried to charge, but his nervous horse backed away. Soon the dragon was spitting clouds of smoke and fire. As the monster opened his mouth wide, horse and rider were so scared that the knight dropped his spear-right into the dragon's mouth. It killed the beast stone-cold dead before you could as much as say Saint George...