Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mink coat, put on a white overall and helmet, descended a quarter-mile into a coal mine near Nottingham. Chipping off a lump of coal with a pickax, she said: "I'll have to get this mounted!" When a cutting machine wafted some coal dust into her mouth, the miners beamed as the princess cried, "It tastes delicious...
...consequences of this process are obvious. Had Oppenheimer kept his mouth shut four years ago and shied away from anything outside his field, or if he had refused to work for the government, he would now have no trouble. It is a logical outcome of the Administration's action this week that more and more people of ability will base their future job decisions on such reasoning. Another consequence is, as the seven diplomats said, an unwillingness among those who remain to say anything out of the ordinary--an unwillingness which with time will ripen into an inability. Whether this...
...motions of singing-but no sound came forth. When the puzzled mother asked for an explanation, her daughter said that she was practicing for her part as a "goldfish" in the music festival. Goldfish, it developed, are the nonmusical children who stand with their classroom choirs and silently mouth words while the really talented singers do the competing, unhampered by croaks, voice breaks, sour notes or unpremeditated riffs...
This particular strategy was invented by Freshman Heffelfinger in his first Princeton game (score: Yale 10, Princeton 0), which was reported thus by the New Haven Register: "Both teams got in some quite respectable slugging, and the man who did not have a bloody nose and mouth was considered a little out of fashion...
Change of Venue. In Raleigh, N.C., arrested for vagrancy, Ohioan John Pa-lenkas explained why he was in town: "All the Southern bums are in Ohio taking the bread out of my mouth, so I [decided to] go on the bum down South...