Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing disaffection on the part of Negroes for participation by white people in civil rights activity," he declared. "Unfortunately, the sentiment is that the liberal is the most dangerous white man, even more so than the frank segregationist, because the liberal talks out of both sides of his mouth." He cited the case of Harry Golden, who had a Negro receptionist at the beginning of his journalistic career in Charlotte, N.C. But when his Carolina Israelite began to be read in the South, and many Southerners came to visit him, Golden "promoted" the Negro girl to circulation manager, where...
...errand, saw him on the porch of the cabin where he kept his books and his shotgun. Would he like a lift to the main house? "No," said Stanley Walker. "You come back a little later." When he was alone, he put the muzzle of the shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger...
Last week Ikeda's government decided the reins could safely be loosened a little, lowered the official bank interest rate by 0.3% to 6.57%-back to where it was before the clampdown. Japanese businessmen were delighted, but they still managed to pull a poor mouth. Says Fuji Steel President Shigeo Nagano: "I would like to see the government now embark on a general relaxation of financial curbs, otherwise it is going to be a long, slow climb back to prosperity''-Japanese style, that...
...carry this too far. Bowie relates some valuable history and makes a good many useful proposals; Zeckhauser gives a really impressive (despite its prose) summary of trade issues between the U.S. and Europe, difficult to do for a lay readership; and Nitze is after all the Horse's Mouth. Besides, Hoffmannesque detachment would probably drive them all mad, or, at best, prevent them from doing their jobs...
...tramp (Georges Wilson) strides by. She staggers back, moves as if to cry out, hesitates, stares after him bewildered. Impossible! But for an instant she could have sworn the old tramp was her husband! Next day when he comes by again she asks him in. He has a kind mouth and sad eyes that light up wonderfully when she plays Rossini on the jukebox, but something in his face suggests a damaged and diminished man. "I've lost my memory," he explains shyly. She faints. She is sure...