Word: mouthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lowering night two weeks ago, Mary Cheever put her car in the garage after a P.T.A. meeting. At the mouth of the dingy alley next to her apartment house, a man in a long-visored cap sprang at her. He clawed for her shoulder bag, clubbed her on the head with a pistol, shot her in the back. She screamed three times and died in an ambulance ten minutes later...
Regular concentration dinners with speakers from the University help to widen acquaintance. These are supplemented by House dinners several times during the year. The Christmas dinner, crowned but a whole pig, apple in mouth, and the spring dinner with outstanding guests have become K-House traditions. Additional meetings, such as that with Robert Frost this winter, occur not infrequently. Semi-annual Nocturnal Collations--beer parties--and the Spring Formal complete the list of significant events. Activities of this sort have contributed to the House's reputation as the most democratic...
...astronomer, physicist and rocket expert of Caltech, has developed such an engine for the U.S. Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...
...phonetics expert, takes it upon himself to teach cultured English to a poor flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, and then pass her off as English nobility. For months he drills, cudgels, and bullies her, until "'Enry 'Iggins" becomes "Henry Higgins," and the Bunsen flame in front of Eliza's mouth flickers visibly with every "h." Finally comes the great test, and sweeping a starchy Ambassador's Ball, Eliza waltzes with princes, chats with royalty, and convinces one of the Professor's colleagues that her accent is Hungarian. Afterwards, Eliza accuses Professor Higgins of using her merely for an experiment, and tries...
...Kittredge took a puck at the blue line, passed to Bob DiBlasio, took his pass back, and set up the goal for DiBlasio with a goal mouth pass...