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Word: mouthes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Millikin waggled a finger under the Douglas nose. Douglas waggled right back. Clearly outreached, stubby Gene Millikin retired briefly. Douglas accused the Republicans of sponsoring tax measures which would benefit only the wealthy. Rejoined Millikin: "Dear Senator, if that did not come out of your mouth. I would call it sheer claptrap-and it is still claptrap, even though it comes out of your mouth." From his safe distance, Millikin waved a long yellow pencil at Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Author & the Crocodile | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...things, Dr. Wurmeling has worked simply at saying things. Under fire from several segments of society-Socialists, feminists, moviemakers, Protestant and anticlerical wings of his own party, some of the judiciary-he stood before a crowd of admirers last week and promised: "I shall not close my mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Defender of the Family | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...polio has been increasing. Man himself is the only known natural reservoir of the virus. How it reaches him and enters his system is not known for certain, but the current consensus is: person to person, rather than by pests (though flies can carry the virus), and through the mouth. It may be hand to mouth, or by inhalation, or both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Closing in on Polio | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...blubbers helplessly under the withering word-fire of an intelligence officer (Gregory Peck) who dares to use his intelligence-the picture is strongly reminiscent of a leftish political cartoon from the '30s in which a hog in striped pants is served up with an apple in his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Shipowner Stavros Niarchos, after war service in the Greek navy, is building the largest cargo ship ever built in the U.S., the largest tanker in the world [TIME, Feb. 22]. Admiral Nearchus (325 B.C.), explorer, built ships and sailed from the mouth of the Indus across the Arabian Sea and up to the head of the Persian Gulf. He and his crew reported to their commander in chief Alexander the Great in Iran, after a two-year voyage of tremendous hardship and valor. Could be ... a case of long-distance heredity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1954 | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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