Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equipoise. Our head is above water, but it is not enough to float. We have to swim . . . and we have to swim against the stream. At the moment, we can say we are holding our own . . . but we cannot be satisfied with that. We cannot live from hand to mouth and from month to month in this world of change and turmoil. We must create by long and steady systems of trade and exchange throughout our Empire and Commonwealth, and throughout the wider world, reserves of strength and solvency which enable us to rise solid, steadfast and superior . . . Thus...
...strangers. His voice is low and husky, and as he talks, he abstractly fingers a couple of worn coins. As on an old coin, the familiar face has grown a little indistinct. Heavily framed spectacles sometimes slip down to the end of the short nose; around the turned-down mouth, the once plump bull-terrier cheeks now sag mastiff-like...
Come proudly from his mouth as household words...
...from the enterprising young man who asserted that his A.B. was "worth money" in Chicago to the pollsters last year who discovered that graduates of Harvard (and two other institutions which have tried to follow its example)--even those who were not born with coupon-bearing bonds in their mouth--earned considerably above the average for college...
...perfection of Norman beauty; a superb high forehead, blond cendré [ash-blond] hair, an admirable and faultless little nose, blue eyes not quite big enough, chin narrow but a little too long; her face is a perfect oval and one can only take exception to her mouth, which has somewhat the shape and the turned-down corners of a pike...