Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mass casualty times, all Charlie Med personnel work round the clock; they have done so for as long as 48 hours. Then, even the dentists quit their cavities and turn to as assistant surgeons, working not only in the mouth, but debriding (cleaning, by removing dead tissue) wounds in any part of the body. Enlisted marines inevitably have made this the basis for a wisecrack: "If you're gonna get wounded, be sure you get hurt real bad or you'll draw a dentist for your doctor...
...horse being shod: "He is enormous. His rump is a brown, glossy world. His ears are secret entrances to the underworld. One of his legs is doubled up behind him in an improbable affectedly polite way. Clear bright-green bits of stiffened froth, like glass, are stuck around his mouth . . and the cloud of his odor is a chariot in itself...
...good bet that meeting Charles Sims would be unpleasant. His grizzled face and scruffy clothes look engaging only from a distance; once you come close to the man, he stares you down, and you want to disappear. There is something hostile, even belligerant in his eyes. Without opening his mouth, he seems to be saying, "I don't like...
...other questions must be ironed out "as we look at individual courses and specific situations." His mind works on an operational level. He avoids definitions, generalizations, sweeping conclusions and philosophies of education. At a vague abstraction his brows furrow, a slight smile forms at the corners of his mouth. "You've got to talk about concrete situations", he says brusquely. "I don't believe there's any one flat philosophy that can serve everyone best. I think people sought to be given options...
...Clear Day she plays a dual role as Daisy Gamble, a low-brow chick who gains highborn chic when she is hypnotized. With a nod of her head, she goes from side-of-da-mouth to elegant eighteenth century English, from bubble-gum popping to a low purr when crystal wouldn't melt in her mouth. The new voice seems less to be coming from her than through her-a ventriloquistic trick-but it provokes a growl of lusty approval from the audience. And that in itself is justification aplenty for Alan Jay Lerner to have paid Barbara...