Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then they crept down the slope, flanked by diversionary groups on the left and right. The raiders surprised and killed three tunnel guards, then waited while the enemy packed the 8-by-5-ft. passage with troops. ROK engineers planted 200 Ibs. of TNT at the tunnel's mouth; five minutes later, the explosive went up with a shattering roar. Forty-four Reds perished; the tunnel was ruined...
...that military equipment is coming out in some volume, said the committee, it is time to re-examine the whole idea of building up stocks of weapons that may be obsolete by the time they are needed. The committee's conclusion: the U.S. should stop its hand-to-mouth buying and "substitute, to the greatest extent practicable, production capacity for the stockpiling of military end-items." Much progress has already been made in boosting weapons-making capacity; now the job ought to be finished no matter what the cost. Among the committee's recommendations...
...despite the dilemma of the gift horse's mouth and despite the advantages of a one to eleven permission on Saturdays, there are still objections which must be voiced...
...intersperse their religious rites with local Hindu practices. Like Hindus, Indian Christian women have always worn large gold earrings in the upper part of their ears. The Christians preserve Hindu-style observances for birth, marriage and death, e.g., when a child is born, its father pours into its mouth three drops of honey in which gold has been dipped...
Volcanologists like to analyze the lava of new volcanoes, but getting the lava samples can be a sticky business. Last week two scientific adventurers from San Diego, Adrian Richards and Lewis Walker, told about their dangerous visit to El Boquerón (Big Mouth), the new volcano on tiny San Benedicto Island off the west coast of Mexico. They were the first to set foot on the still-smoking cone...