Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture of her mother, and guarded by a Maltese cat. My heart hurt. Could this wreck, this ruin, this witch be the "outrageously beautiful" Maud Gonne? The woman Yeats had called "a classical impersonation of the spring, with complexion luminous as apple blossoms through which the light falls"? The mouth had sunk. The chin approached the nose. How heart-wrenching the mutations of time . . . But as she talked, I felt the upsurge of a vibrant personality. She lived; I could believe in her beauty...
More than an admission of foolish bragging was involved in the change of goals. The self-criticizing article in Peking's People's Daily amounted to a remarkable revelation of the hand-to-mouth nature of the entire industrialization program. Besides sloppy planning, the People's Daily admitted poor designing, serious shortages of skilled labor, general delays in delivery (presumably from Russia), and what was called "poor geological data." The pattern of cuts in mineral production and Chia's announcement of a 500% increase in "prospecting and development operations" indicates that China is a long...
...more stanzas. After a scene outside the Mudville ball park, in which he discloses a few previously unrevealed facts (Casey was a left-handed rightfielder with a batting average of .564), he takes the audience to a spot somewhere back of shortstop and puts the poetry into the mouth of a narrator...
...some containing thousands of dollars. There were the first rough sketches of cars and of assembly plants, hundreds of "jotbooks" into which Ford noted everything that interested him -new ideas, new words (garrulous, adulation, ambrosia), and the sly maxims he coined ("A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it" and "He took misfortune like a man-blamed it on his wife...
...orphan shipped barefoot and alone from Missouri to an Indian school in Oklahoma. This is the kind of situation that is usually played for a lump in the throat, but Author Stafford never plays that way. What the reader gets from A Summer Day is a dry mouth and a hot, hopeless feeling of sympathy for the boy in his loneliness...