Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camp. Men, women and children slept in utter exhaustion on straw pallets. A middle-aged woman awoke with a start, already weeping. She stared around in hysterical terror. Near her, a young man gazed emptily at the ceiling, suddenly leaped from his mat, clutched a filthy rag to his mouth and ran for the door, vomiting as he went. A little girl danced happily around the room, holding a tattered rag doll to her breast, then sat down on the dirty floor and cried soundlessly, helplessly in the shocking, numbing discovery that the long trip of escape was ended...
...elderly couple got out. They were tourists, just passing by. The birdlike little woman chattered warmly to the counterman as she ordered weak tea. Her husband, a tall, stooped, somber man in a sports jacket, remained aloof. His heavy, bald dome wrinkled uneasily; his face drooped; his mouth was firmly shut. He folded and unfolded his big hands, cracking a knuckle occasionally and gazing, with utter absorption, at the garish, commonplace surroundings. His blue-grey eyes shone steady and intense as the crack of dawn...
...rough and hard-fought contest was a scoreless tie until senior Ted Hollander scored from close-in at 16:22 of the second period. Wylde made it 2 to 0 only 37 seconds later when he converted a goal-mouth pass from Dave Birch...
...Chicago. Anyone who dials BRoadway 5-0707 is greeted by a honey-laden female voice. "Hello, darling, I'm so glad you called," it trills, then invites the listener to meet her that night for a drink at Irv Benjamin's restaurant. Using only word-of-mouth advertising, Irv Benjamin gets 183,000 calls a month, and even with ten machines, the line is almost always busy...
...held down by main force. Bodies that should have been moldering in the grave were exhumed fresh and fragrant; sometimes they bled, as did that of St. John of the Cross when they cut off its finger. The Host at Mass once leapt by itself into the mouth of St. Catherine of Siena...