Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Father Feeney is going to have a riot on his hands here one of these fine Sundays," said a middle-aged man in the crowd. Ten minutes later, a 50-year-old weekly reckler named Jeff was struck on the mouth by another of Feeney's supporters. Jeff has always yelled to Feeney that the priest was "teaching a graveyard religion...
...Hoof & Mouth Trouble...
Scarcely were the words out of his mouth than Ridgway was proved a greater exaggerator and hastier reporter than Hanley. In Manhattan, a reporter picked up a report which had lain for two weeks in U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters. It had been submitted by Ridgway on Nov. 12-two days before Hanley made his announcement. As U.N. Commander for Korea, Ridgway reported not 6,000 U.S. atrocity victims (a figure he had indicated was unwarranted by solid evidence), nor 365 (the number he had said in Tokyo was proved), but "approximately 8,000 U.S. military personnel . . . reported killed...
...plane taxied up to the line, the crowd surged past the police line, shoving the dignitaries perilously close to the still-whirling propellers. The scene around the plane's unopened door became a madhouse of shouting ministers and mullahs. One Majlis leader was whacked across the mouth with a large wet floral wreath. Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson, out to say hello to Mossadegh, was caught in the mob at the airport, had his pockets picked (his wallet was later returned intact), but never got to speak to the pallidly beaming Premier...
Hardly were Woods's words out of his mouth when Mobilization Chief Charlie Wilson slapped him down. Wilson said he was confident that the Critical Areas Committee, composed of representatives from five defense agencies, "was operating efficiently." To end the feuding, Wilson appointed Raymond M. Foley, head of the Federal Housing & Home Finance Agency, as head man of all defense-housing activities, including Woods's rent-control department...