Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they came: day after day the transoceanic planes brought them-engineers, clergymen, mechanics, bakers, nervous women, bewildered children. Shepherded by welfare groups, volunteers and relatives, they turned to the glittering cities to find promises of the future. "My mouth stands open," said one refugee, in wonderment. Said a young wife: "It is so beautiful. The new life is waiting for us. We are going into a dreamland." "To think," said a father, "that my children can have orange juice and eggs for breakfast. It is just like a paradise here...
...tall? Is it a Walt Disney goldfish? It has the same sort of big, soft, beautiful eyes and long, curly lashes, but who ever heard of a goldfish with sideburns? Is it a corpse? The face just hangs there, limp and white with its little drop-seat mouth, rather like Lord Byron in the wax museum...
...problem unique in the proud history of Britain: they were afraid that Egypt and Israel would stop fighting and peace would break out in the Middle East. All Monday afternoon, as British paratroops ground down on Port Said and a Franco-British fleet hovered off the canal's mouth, Britain's Cabinet debated tensely. One member pointed out that the man who stepped in to referee a fight would hardly be justified in attacking the boxers if they stopped fighting. There was a murmur of uncomfortable assent. But Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden had gone...
...Boom Backstop. Within a few years, Venezuela will be using part of its ore to make steel at home. An Italian combine is under contract with the Venezuelan government to build a $200 million, 421,500-ton-a-year steel mill near the mouth of the Caroni. Last week, a few miles up the Caroni from the mill-to-be, the workmen, trucks and power shovels of a French construction firm were clearing a site for a government-owned hydroelectric plant that will provide 143,000 kw. for steelmaking, plus another 157,000 for the region's future industrial...
Alarmed by continuing reports of undesirable side effects from the drug car-butamide, given by mouth for the relief of diabetes (TIME, Oct. 29), Indianapolis' Eli Lilly & Co. asked 2,900 doctors who have been testing it on 10,000 patients to abandon the trial. Most disturbing was a report that-at least in animals-car-butamide can cause liver damage which might be worse than the diabetes it is meant to control. Lilly was already experimenting with other promising drugs...