Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that we could be happy together." Kate wrote back to the boy she had never dated, reasonably suggesting that they wait until he returned home before making any such decision. But last week, when asked if she would marry Ed Dickenson, she had barely opened her mouth to answer when her mother, with an angry spit of snuff juice, snapped: "No, she ain't gonna marry...
...what about meat? Even red meat?" Mouthing his words like a music-hall comic, Churchill spluttered: "I am always very chary with percentages . . . I like short words and vulgar fractions. Well, here is the plain vulgar fact: in the first two years of the Tory government, the British nation has actually eaten 400,000 tons more meat, including red meat, than they did in the last two years of the Socialist administration." And with that, Sir Winston Churchill rinsed out his mouth with, of all things, a glass of cold water. Grimacing like the champion brandy drinker that...
...field for more than three-fourths of the game. Juan Rodrigues was the standout among the fullbacks. Lindsey Fischer, who replaced Briggs in the goal for the second half, turned in two excellent saves. On one of them he leaped high into a scramble of players at the mouth of the cage, and on the other he deflected a high, hard, long shot over...
...There is still no scientific evidence that fancy ingredients in tooth paste, tooth powder, mouth washes or chewing gum will keep teeth from decaying, the American Dental Association declared. Its annual convention (in Cleveland) berated dentifrice advertisers for false claims, also took a swipe at soft-drink peddlers for pretending that their concoctions don't harm teeth. The association's rules for dental health: use less sugar, brush teeth regularly with any powder or paste that helps the brush to clean them...
This beautiful "gesture of defiance flung at the mechanical age" met the fate of many a lovely sailing-ship. In 1910 at the mouth of the English Channel she was rammed by a "blundering steamer," was so weakened that a subsequent gale broke her back and sent her aground...