Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until Khrushchev opened his mouth, the State Department had been feeling discreetly optimistic; all through the weary weeks Gromyko had asked pertinent questions and avoided flat answers. Perhaps the Russians really were seriously considering President Eisenhower's dramatic "open skies" proposal for mutual aerial reconnaissance. But to Stassen in the meeting room at Claridge's, Khrushchev said the whole U.S. plan was nothing but a trick to let U.S. planes photograph bomb targets in Russia. The U.S.S.R., he said, would never agree...
...full house was in a show-me mood. The opening applause was just polite. Igor played César Franck's Sonata in A with half-closed eyes focused on his finger board, his lips compressed, mouth working. It was an impressive, boldly colored performance. The next work, Bach's knuckle-busting G Minor Sonata, is a test for any violinist. Violinist Oistrakh seemed to anticipate it with both distaste and fear and played as if to get it over with. It was, however, the evening's only disappointment. After works by Prokofiev, Szymanowski and Saint...
...reputation for being hard to handle. The hump-backed Brahman, immune to India's heat and insects, is undeniably tough, but so is its meat. A few massive, pale brown Charollaise have been imported from France via Mexico. But since 1937 they have been barred by foot-and-mouth disease laws, and the U.S. herd numbers only...
...blood and dangerously overworks. It causes "dropsy"-the body's retention of salt and water. One standard way to get rid of excess brine has been to inject a mercurial diuretic. Five research reports at Atlantic City meetings indicated that a mercurial drug to be taken regularly by mouth, chlormerodrin (Neo-hydrin), is both effective and safe for long-term...
...soon as you pulled out the pin . . . Spanish field guns for which the wrong shells had been supplied. Mauser rifles which dated from 1912. No . . . we tolerated the internal corruption of our country for too long"). Major Khaled and his fellow officers see Dirk as a useful mouth piece for outlining their aims to the outside world once their coup succeeds...