Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tunnel's mouth, Cotton Executive Eric Moss, who had been on the site since the news of the accident reached him, said: "I don't want anybody else to risk their lives by trying to get my son's body out. Let's leave him where he is." But rescuers, who thought such a decision "goes right against the grain of every potholer," got permission to drive a new 20-ft. tunnel to get Moss's body out, because "it will teach us a lot in avoidance of future accidents...
Statue to Harding. At first, while he trained his little guerrilla army, Grivas had to set detonation charges himself. Much of the time he hid in a tiny cave dug into the side of a hill, its mouth plugged with foliage and earth, a slender tube run inside for breathing...
Vision of Carnage. Hodgson's latest poetry is filled with an old theme: fury at human cruelty to nature, to animals, to the imagination. In most of his uncompleted The Muse and the Mastiff, this theme is put in the mouth of an ancient wild bear, who seldom has a kind word for any other animal. To Hodgson, cruelty seems to be getting worse and worse in the hands of men ("I see such carnage in the future"). As for what may come to the world that he has broodingly watched from his lonely farmhouse for so many years...
Marilyn is rarely in hers. Clad in negligee and open mouth, she crawls into Lemmon's upper berth to thank "her" for a favor, notices with innocent surprise: "You poor thing, you're trembling all over...
...alleged brutality occurred after Thursday's riot. In a sworn statement given to the university police, two freshmen charged that the city police had attacked them following their arrest. "As we drove away," one reported, "the officer who had arrested me turned around and hit me in the mouth. When we got to the corner and stopped for a traffic light, he turned around and hit me again." His companion, they alleged, was later beaten when the car stopped in an alley behind the police station...