Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orchids to TIME, [Feb. 2] for the Studebaker story! . . . For the first time, you've actually made my mouth water for an American automobile...
Tooth & Nail. In Rapid City, S. Dak., John Spalla, who said he had just wanted to save on dentist bills, was charged with assault & battery after he tied his wife's hands behind her, pried open her mouth with a screwdriver, and tried to pull her teeth with a pair of pliers...
This screwball Wayne Morse, who was frothing at the mouth re Engine Charlie-where was he while the parade of crackpots, misfits, nincompoops and just plain crooks were operating in Truman's menagerie? Why wasn't he protesting then? ... It would be characters like Morse who would deprive the country of the services of men of real honest-to-goodness ability and integrity...
...believe Mr. Burgheim has put his foot in his mouth when he refers to "the swarthy Segura (who) resembled a matador burying his muleta." One doesn't burry muletas any more than one buries baseball bats. They are wooden props used to hold the cape with one hand so as to distract the bull while one kills him with a sword held in the other hand. --Larry Wilde...
...Childhood nightmares overruled my mind. I was ill in bed, terrorized with the realization that everything in the world was thick. My fingers were sausages. My tongue was a tennis ball. My lips swelled grotesquely on the mouth grip. The air was syrup. The water jelled around me as though I were smothered in aspic. I hung witless on the rope. Standing aside was a smiling, jaunty man, my second self, perfectly self-contained, grinning sardonically at the wretched diver. [He] ordered that I unloose the rope and go on down...