Word: mouthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more sedate than the President's. Newspapers, including the New York Times ("All the News That's Fit to Print") boldly printed the initials "S.O.B." in headlines. A phrase long taboo in newspapers had been given a kind of sanction by passing through the President's mouth; S.O.B. had become editorial S.O.P...
Vitamins & Smoke. Diet may be "an important predisposing cause" of cancer of the mouth, said the University of Southern California's Dr. Ian MacDonald. A lack of proteins and vitamins of the B-complex family (e.g., the sort of bland diet used to treat stomach ulcers) may be the trouble. Diets rich in proteins and B-complex may help prevent it. Smoking? Possibly a minor cause of cancer of the mouth, said Dr. MacDonald...
...year-old Detroit woman was being treated for asthma and bronchitis with penicillin. One day a nurse gave her a routine injection of 50,000 units. Within a few seconds the patient complained of a strange taste in her mouth, and of swelling and tightness in her throat and nose. She itched all over, and turned blue in the face. Then, as she was asking for a glass of water, she collapsed and died...
...strike of Buenos Aires newspaper typographers (TIME, Feb. 21) was no nearer settlement; it threatened, in fact, to spread across the nation. Despite the continued absence of newspapers, most portenos had heard-by word of mouth-all about the army's demand that Juan Peron keep his blonde wife out of public life. Evita was back at her desk in the Secretariat of Labor & Social Welfare. One night she appeared to accept the cheers of a Peronista union members' rally. But for once, she made no speech...
...Times, remarking that "nobody would wish to look several hundred gift horses in the mouth," complained that the pictures were not well hung. In fact, they were slapped up (at Hutchinson's direction) pretty much like the pictures in an ex-prizefighter's restaurant: you couldn't see the walls for them...