Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...checks-some of them made out to men who denied ever having seen them-had been cashed on Hodge's signature by Chicago's Southmoor Bank. For days Hodge held firm, resisted Republican Governor William Stratton's efforts to get him to resign, and kept his mouth shut. Then Southmoor Bank's President Edward H. Hintz, who had suddenly quit his job, pointed his finger directly at his longtime crony, Hodge, for the benefit of the Chicago Tribune...
...million volts) and radio-cobalt devices for treating cancer. The consensus: in many types of cancer they are no better than old-fashioned X rays; in some cases they offer only slight improvement. But they can markedly increase the cure rate in cancers of the mouth, nasal sinuses, brain, esophagus, parotid gland...
Ugly Word. Late in 1954, too busy to return to the U.S., she went to the U.S. Navy Hospital in Naples, where the doctors found a heightening of the conditions her New York physicians had listed. Noting that gum and mouth tissues were greatly inflamed, a Navy nose-and-throat specialist asked if any of her medicines contained arsenic. None did. It was the first time the ugly word had been mentioned in connection with her illnesses...
...heart of Sherwood Forest, sober-sided Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, took corona in mouth and bow in hand, tried to hit a short-range bull's-eye with a suction-cupped arrow in an attempt to promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target...
Later, as tempers flared still higher, North Carolina's salty Democratic Senator Sam Ervin cut smoothly between the two, reminded them that "Jonah made a very wise remark to the whale. He told the whale if he had kept his mouth shut, that thing wouldn't have happened." Both Jackson and Engine Charlie joined in the laughter and later shook hands...