Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After frantic effort, G.O.P. headquarters reached Stratton, then called Detroit and-finally-arranged a settlement. Before leaving Detroit for the flight to Chicago. Charlie Wilson knew what he would have to do. Wryly he told reporters: "The rumor around Washington is that I have foot-in-mouth disease...
...towns of Jeremie and Aux Cayes were largely unroofed. The International Red Cross estimated that too people were dead and 100,000 homeless after the storm's brief passage. But Haiti foresaw as the storm's worst effect months of starvation for remote, hand-to-mouth villagers, whose subsistence crops of bananas and plantains were ruined...
...were protesting against a government measure that seemed to thrust at their very livelihood: a steep boost in the police fines they regularly expect and richly deserve. Few had bothered actually to read the new scale of fines, but according to the telejiol, Haiti's famed word-of-mouth communications network, merely sassing a cop could cost $24 instead of the traditional $1. Worse, they heard that a $40 bond was to be required of all drivers. Set against the standard fare of 10?, the new operating costs were plainly prohibitive...
Bags & Spoons. Eric Vansittart Bowater, says one of his friends, is a "self-made man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth." Though he comes from a titled family, Sir Eric earned his knighthood for World War II service in the Air Ministry. The family has been in the paper business since 1881, but it was not until Eric, a wounded veteran, joined the firm in 1921 that the company began to expand fast. Sir Eric decided that the firm, then only a trading company with assets of $1,500.000, ought to get into manufacturing. Unable...
...despite apparent successes, black-ink--unless it is on the music--is not widely used in the office below the Varsity Club. This year's Princeton trip costs, for example, will depend on the success of the annual Dartmouth concert. In spite of such horn-to-mouth finances, however, the band as missed only two varsity games since its organization, one trip to Cornell and the trip to Stanford...