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Word: mouthes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career woman in a primarily-male field, Mrs. Gaposchkin dresses plainly and wears no make-up. Her professionalism is most evident in her ultra-efficiency, her lucid speech, and her chain-smoking. Even while she talks, she keeps a cigarette in the center of her mouth between her teeth, lighting each successive cigarette from the preceding...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Hitch Your Wagon | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

...obvious to the last row, third balcony, that the lady is pregnant. But what is this dark drive that possesses her? With somnambulistic stare she crosses to the kitchen counter. She reaches for a knife-and then for the bread and peanut butter. She raises the sandwich to her mouth, hesitates. A gleam of madness flickers in her eye. She takes out an onion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Eisenhower, through his ubiquitous mouth-piece, Sherman Adams, has refused an invitation from Mongomery's Rev. Martin Luther King to speak in the South on the problems of integration. The reason that he gave for his refusal was that he could not spare the time to "schedule a speaking engagement". The President has, however, in the past two weeks, been able to make two separate trips to Augusta, Georgia, spending a total of nine days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Integration | 2/15/1957 | See Source »

Menon's pettishness did nothing to help India's case. "People here," said a Canadian delegate, "are not so much pro-Pakistan or pro-India as they are anti-Menon. Every time he opens his mouth, people want to vote against him." In the roll call that followed Menon's speech, this desire was freely indulged. By a vote of 10-0 (with Russia abstaining), the Security Council for the fifth time called for a plebiscite in Kashmir, and challenged the right of Kashmir's puppet assembly to unite the state with India. Indians were disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KASHMIR: India Grabs It | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...tried to give it to him through learning, understanding and religion," says Sam Bernstein. "With ruach Elohim a man does not become dizzy when he reaches high places. Without it he is nothing, and the food in his mouth is like straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wunderkind | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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