Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza hotel, Taft's second son, Lawyer Robert Taft Jr., stepped before a dinner of the National Conference of Christians & Jews and read his father's text. The words were scarcely out of young Bob's mouth before there was explosive reaction from all around the world...
...course in how to run them. Soon he offered Port-au-Prince its first nettoyage à sec. After the predictable number of mangled sleeves and missing buttons, Jimmy's crew of five began to get the hang of dry-cleaning. The tele jiol (Creole for word-of-mouth telegraph) advertised his service, and bundles of clothes poured in on muleback and in baskets on peasant women's heads. Jimmy expanded his plant, opened a laundry (the Blanchisserie Jimmy). Today his business is worth...
...find herself back at the "oneness . . ." As he reached ten, she said ("quite calmly and positively"): "This is the womb. There is something beating in me and through me-my mother's heart. I can't see-and it feels as if I've got no mouth." He asked her in what position she found herself. She answered, "Curled up," and she "immediately assumed the fetal position." When Dr. Kelsey tried to get this patient to describe her existence before the "oneness," she babbled some seemingly incompatible impressions: "It was dark, yet filled with colors of indescribable...
...Defense, James V. Forrestal. Behind his special, direct-line White House telephone, the man from Detroit propped a framed motto which read, "Nulle Bastardo Carborundum"-assembly-line Latin for "Don't let the bastards wear you down." Then, draping a cigarette out of the corner of his mouth, he rang a buzzer twice and an aide, Marine Colonel Carey Randall, appeared in the office doorway. Said Charlie Wilson, looking up over the plastic rims of his glasses: "Let's get to work...
Since the army's abortive revolt in September 1951, the country has been, by presidential decree, in a "state of internal war." While this does not affect the ordinary businessman or worker who keeps his mouth shut, it has a very real meaning for people suspected of being enemies of Perón. It means that the police may legally arrest any resident of Argentina and hold him indefinitely, without ever bringing any charge against him. (There are now an estimated 80,000 cops in Buenos Aires alone; New York City, with a population nearly three times as large...