Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were going to, and I believed them, and I thought, 'Dean, I don't know whether you can take it or not.' " That night he grabbed a submachine gun from a dozing guard, intending first to kill his Chinese tormentors, then put the gun in his mouth and fire. But the triggers jammed, and the guards jumped him. Next day, oddly enough, the Communists quit the interrogation and began giving him better treatment...
...London Local Medical Committee, deeply distressed "at the lack of any effective response from official quarters to what can truthfully be described as a national disaster," urged fellow townsmen to protect their lungs with sixpence worth of gauze folded into a six-layer mask and tied over the mouth and nose. The meshes of the mask, said the committee, would arrest most of the soot, while moisture from the breath, condensed on the mask, would prevent passage of some of the chemicals that cause lung trouble...
Soprano Schwarzkopf chose her favorite form, German lieder, and, from the time she first opened her mouth, never uttered an unpleasant sound. She ranged with practiced ease from a fragile, little-girl voice in such songs as Schubert's Die Vogel to big, dramatic tones in Hugo Wolf's Kennst Du das Land. She could soar high into the flute altitudes with the same rich quality that she used in her cello-like middle register. Before her program was half over, the audience was convinced; by the end, it was shouting its approval...
...acoustics perfect, and tirelessly sang Neapolitan songs whenever he was a guest. "Enough!" Misia finally cried. "I can't bear that any more!" Eyes popping, Caruso exploded in dismay: "I, Caruso, the great, the incomparable Caruso! I! Princes have knelt before me, begging me to open my mouth, and you ask me to shut it!" But he shut...
Princeton scored its first goal late in the first period. Nick Cordero put the ball past Crimson goalie Pete Briggs, hard put to keep a footing in the muddy mouth of the goal. The Tigers hung the game up to dry midway through the final period when Phil Januszkiewicz got the second and concluding score...