Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eisenhower had to have a heart attack to throw the country into a recession, but Kennedy just has to open his mouth to wipe out $70 billion in values of stocks in two months...
...spit on yourself without opening your mouth...
...then Defense Secretary Charles Wilson got into a name-calling argument. Ervin busted in: "I've always been able to sympathize with what Jonah is reputed to have said after the whale threw him off on dry land after three days: 'If you'd kept your mouth shut, this thing wouldn't have happened.' " Ervin's comment may have been irrelevant to the issue-but both Jackson and Wilson calmed down...
Forgiving Verse. The Independent was not exactly amused by the competition, especially when Billie Sol scooted around town corralling most of the advertising and shooting off his mouth about those right-wingers on that other paper. For the first time in its history, the Independent really began to scratch for news, and in Pecos the news, as usual, involved Billie Sol. The suspicions of Independent Editor Oscar Griffin, 29, zeroed in on the 15,000 fertilizer tanks that Billie Sol was supposed to own. Week after week, the Independent needled Billie Sol. That was well before anyone else thought...
...tuned in on porpoises for a practical purpose: they wanted to study natural noises that might be of importance to antisubmarine warfare. With a string of 15 spar buoys-aluminum tubes weighted at one end so they floated upright with 12 ft. of their length underwater-they blocked the mouth of a Lower California lagoon. The buoys were set soft. apart, making a loose barrier across the channel; on the bottom near by, the scientists spotted two underwater microphones. Their hazard to navigation in place, the scientists retired to their research boat to wait for porpoises to swim through...