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Word: mouthfulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit felt that he spoke a mouthful. Its victories were being won, but the communiques did not mention them.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: New Era Begins | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Ghouls and Beggars. Hunger has fostered a new profession. When the Athens powerhouse shuts down at nightfall to save fuel, grave robbers prowl the dark cemeteries, stripping the dead of the clothes they no longer need. It has been a bitter winter in Greece, and there is no fuel. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Hungriest Country | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

The Commanding General of the First Army had said a mouthful. The Army in the continental U.S. (but happily not troops in outlying posts) has not yet enough ammunition for target practice. Until the Army has the ammunition -and the target practice-no general can rightly say that the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Second Battle of the Carolinas | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Among the 88 was Walter Sorensen. When a reporter asked Anna how she felt, she said a casual mouthful about one American boy who risked a lot for 62 bucks a month.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Reuben James to Davy Jones | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Up before the committee came Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who stepped out of his constitutional mildness to speak a plain forthright mouthful about defense taxes. He asked for a new bill that would bring in from $800,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 more than the $3...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Scrap of Paper | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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