Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Easing the Pressure. Most residents of the U.S.'s new towns find the environment congenial and become word-of-mouth community advertisers. Particularly attractive to the residents is the fact that property taxes tend to stav relatively stable because the cost of infrastructure has already been calculated. New towns, of course, are by no means free from the problems that afflict urban areas everywhere. Some of Reston's teen-agers have taken to drugs and gone on sprees of vandalism. Residents of new towns outside of Stockholm refer to them as "sleeping cemeteries." Though Britons find that...
...Braves' Ronnie Robinson, Sugar Ray's son and the villain on the current tour, repeatedly locked his arm around an opponent's head and then flipped seat-first onto the track, apparently crunching the noggin under his bottom. He also excelled at kicking rivals in the mouth with his skates and beating them over the head with his helmet...
...into the larynx or down the windpipe. With the valve open, the larynx is part of the airway to the lungs. Within it are two folds, the vocal cords, which vibrate when air is exhaled. The vibration of the cords generates the basic sound that is modified by various mouth structures to produce speech...
...With his mouth stretched like a rubber band, Williamson seems to be chewing through the sense of the lines as if for the first time. One notices with surprise that Hamlet's vocabulary is flecked with coarse, rustic phrases like manure on his boots; he talks of "fardels" and "the compost on the weeds" and "the slave's offal" to offset his university scholar's jargon...
...well as a man in a light linen suit who stopped reading the Magnolia Daily Defender as I strode into the library. As the receiver hit the cradle of the phone she looked at the card, then looked at me, then said, more with her eyes than with her mouth, "Oh, so you're Mr. Wilson." By the time she said this I hand handed my bag to the bellhop and was taking out my pen t sign the room slip. Presented with a situation that must have seemed to her a fait accompli, she gave...