Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teams will not lower themselves socially by including the three Boston colleges in their league. They mouth objections about academic standards, recruiting, and other hypocrisies. The fact is, of course, that if they really believed in these objections they would have stopped playing these teams long ago. If they did this to the Penn football team, a member of their own league, how much more easily could they have done it to B.U., B.C., and Northeastern...
Reading the story left a bitter taste in my mouth. Just who the hell do the American people think they are? The excuses they manage to think up to keep the so-called foreigners from living in the same block with them are pretty weak in this...
Canada's $2 billion livestock industry faced a major crisis: an outbreak of the dread foot-and-mouth disease, first in Canadian history, was discovered on the cattle ranges of Saskatchewan. An hour after the disease was reported, the U.S. clamped an embargo on Canadian meats and livestock, shutting off Canada's $100 million-a-year trade south of the border. Eastern Canadian provinces banned livestock shipments from the prairies. Business slumped at Western packing houses, and wholesale beef prices were driven down sharply...
...foot-and-mouth plague slipped into Canada in spite of elaborate quarantine precautions to prevent its entry from Europe or Mexico, the nearest infected areas.* The first Canadian case, thought at the time to be vesicular stomatitis (blistering of the mouth), broke out at a Saskatchewan farm on which a German immigrant had worked briefly last November. Investigation proved that the man had worked on an infected farm in Germany shortly before coming to Saskatchewan. Government scientists believed that the virus had been brought in on the immigrant's work clothes...
...second part of the taste test is carried out by swishing the wine in the mouth, then drawing in air through pursed lips. The "more subtle nuances" are thus revealed...