Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood there with a fat cigar in his mouth he was almost as surprised as I. I put out my hand, which he shook firmly, and I told him that he looked more tired than when I saw him at Harvard, which may or may not have been true, but which gained his attention for the moment. He admitted to keeping late hours since his American tour in April...
...delegates to the 82-nation U.N. General Assembly troop into the glass palace on Manhattan's East River, the world undergoes its equivalent of the annual visit to the dentist. Last week, as the Assembly's 14th session got into full swing, the patient's mouth was wide open and, amid plenty of hollering and yelping, virtually all of mankind's political cavities, abscesses and fillings were mercilessly probed...
...salts usually requires costly and complex electronic gadgets, but Namru-2 medics adapted an inexpensive Rockefeller Institute technique, found that they could learn what they needed by putting a few drops of blood into solutions of copper sulfate ($1.50 per lb.). Pouring in fluids intravenously but giving nothing by mouth, Namru-2 doctors saw their patients recover. For the medically poor areas the Namru-2 success dramatized the fact that cholera, if promptly diagnosed and properly treated, need not be fatal. Proof: the death rate among Namru-2 patients dropped from the prevailing 60% to less than...
...Round. By dugout standards, Jones is something of a wit, delights in snipping up the socks and shorts of teammates, who retaliate by cutting the brims off the hats he wears to cover his thinning, reddish-brown hair. Jones also always wears a toothpick in a corner of his mouth, although he once almost choked when one stuck in his throat after a collision with Milwaukee's Hank Aaron. "I'm strictly a flat-toothpick man," says Jones. "Those round ones get stuck between the bicuspids and molars. And I don't go much for those perfumed...
...professional snake handler in a reptile garden. Serum flown from Miami by Air Force jet saved White. But the cobra's fangs were loosened by the heavy burlap bag through which it struck, and its jaw was dislocated when White jerked his hand away. Infection of the injured mouth killed the snake...