Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fidel Castro has put a bad taste in everybody's mouth with his senseless "trial by jury," followed by the customary executions. Is this his dream of Cuba's new-found democracy...
...Right. Many New England witches were hanged, none was burned. The exception was Salem's Giles Cory who was bound, stretched out on the ground and covered with heavy stones. When the dying man's tongue protruded from his mouth, the local sheriff pushed it back with his cane...
McElroy had hardly closed his mouth before Missouri's Democratic Senator and Presidential Aspirant Stuart Symington -who was Assistant Secretary of War for Air (1946-47) and first Secretary of the new Air Force (1947-50), when...
...Devoid of political experience, President Manuel Urrutia, onetime judge, kept the Cabinet in all-night sessions, quibbling over petty details. "He might make a President in normal times," said one of his own assistants, "but these are not normal times." The treasury was still running on a hand-to-mouth basis, collecting $2,500,000 a day in taxes, much of it in advance. One unexpected windfall: $3,270,170 in bonds and cash, left behind in a strongbox by Batista...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late famed British novelist put his last hurrah for life in the mouth of a miracle-working faith healer whose untidy life suggests that the road to God need not be paved with good conventions...