Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yalta and Potsdam, Stalin suggested that the Montreux Convention should be modified to allow Soviet bases to be built in the area in order to protect the Black Sea mouth. The result of Stalinist bluntness has been seven years of Russo-Turkish hostility and Turkey's growing friendship for the West, culminating in full membership in NATO and a military alliance with Greece and Yugoslavia. In last week's note, Russia renounced its desire for bases on the Dardanelles, spoke only of a friendly solution to the Dardanelles problem. The Turkish government was reported ready to participate...
Save for the fact that his "little mouth protruded like a snout," that his jaw was chinless and that he had almost no neck, Garry Templemore was a fine baby. With proper feeding and education he might have overcome the handicap of having four hands and become, like his father Douglas Templemore, a British newspaperman. But the world was not destined to know. Garry was a mere 24 hours old when his father gave him a lethal shot of strychnine...
...chocolate-colored ditch, treacherous with potholes where many an unwary wetback has drowned. It swirls between banks of cactus and mesquite down 1,800 miles of rich, irrigated farmland to the Gulf of Mexico. Last week most of the lower Rio Grande, from Laredo (pop. 51,910) to its mouth at the southernmost tip of Texas, was a dry arroyo; at Laredo, the river ran dry for the first time since the International Water Commission began keeping records 52 years ago. Goats pattered across the stony bed to the Mexican side; Mexican police fired warning shots to head off straggling...
...outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease last fortnight forced the U.S. to restore the ban on Mexican cattle...
...Racket of Ideas. Maurer ends his book with no formula for spiritual success and no answer to his own questions & except, like Job, to lay his hand upon his mouth...