Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politician. When Defense Secretary Wilson made his widely criticized "bird-dog" remark during the congressional election campaign of 1954, it was Humphrey who took charge of strategy on minimizing the damage. George Humphrey, it has been noted in Washington, is quite nimble at keeping his foot out of his mouth...
...grass. Already, Joe's hearty appetite for cold cash was apparent: he even made a tidy profit out of his habit of sucking his thumb. For months, both his mother and grandmother put dimes under his pillow every time he went to sleep without his thumb in his mouth. Finally grandmother Carver said: "Joe, this has gone far enough. We'll just have to stop giving you money." Replied Joe: "If you do, I'll keep right on sucking my thumb." And so he did, until he was in the second grade and decided that he wanted...
...represent 80% of the population and the bulk of Menderes' party's electoral support. The country exhausted its foreign-exchange reserves and ran up foreign debts, which continue to grow at the rate of $3,000,000 weekly. For months Turkey has been living hand-to-mouth, paying such urgent bills as last June's oil-company duns out of current earnings...
...across, a teacher may place her lips against a balloon, while the pupil places his on the other side. As the sound is repeated, the pupil learns it from the vibrations he feels. The "f" sound can be taught by holding a feather close to the mouth and seeing how it flutters when the consonant is spoken correctly. Puffing at a slip of paper trains the cheek muscles; blowing at a candle flame helps control breathing...
...First prize ($2,000) went to France's Alfred Manessier, 44, for his 5-ft.-wide Crown of Thorns (opposite), a radiant liturgical painting in which a molten skull, mouth agape, glows hot beneath a blue-black thorn crown. Painter Manessier, who was reconverted to Roman Catholicism after service in World War II, began to change from figurative to nonfigurative painting in 1947, also branched out into stained glass and tapestry design. With increased recognition as one of France's foremost painters (TIME, Mar. 21) has come a good share of the world's top art awards...