Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subtle junior-executive swagger, a good deal of wit, and a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able to hear. As for Thelma Ritter, who plays a visiting nurse, she is probably the only actress alive who can stick a thermometer in a man's mouth and say, without a hint of affectation: "See if you can break a hundred...
...issues cropped up, the President plainly showed how upset he was at the cavalier treatment some of his proposals were getting in Congress. Asked to comment on the House's action in killing the Administration's health-reinsurance plan, the President stared ahead for a moment, his mouth turned sternly down. As he answered, his fist drummed the desk, his voice rose angrily. Clearly indicating that he regards his health plan as the last barrier against socialized medicine, Ike warned that the public was going to get better care one way or the other. Said...
...success of this putsch . . . There was a principle involved, and that principle was the responsibility of the United Nations. I think it was a mistake in those circumstances to try to hand it over to a regional body . . . Guatemala has left a rather unpleasant taste in one's mouth because, to illustrate the theme I was putting, it seems in some instances that the acceptance of the principles of the United Nations is subordinated to a hatred of Communism...
...quick deals came only three months after Burlington's hustling boss, J. Spencer Love, 58, had cried poor mouth and called on competitors to stop disastrous price wars. At the time, he even advocated cuts in production. But Love has since decided that the way to fight the textile slump is to have such a broad line of goods that he can compete with all comers...
...fast-moving hero of John Ross Macdonald's Find a Victim. Tooling along a California highway on the way to Sacramento, he saw "the ghastliest hitchhiker who ever thumbed me. He rose on his knees in the ditch. His eyes were black holes in his yellow face, his mouth a bright smear of red like a clown's painted grin." Archer got him to a motel, but when the fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled, the detective was poking into as sordid...