Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respect Troob as a musician, his performance would not have been so appalling. But reputation is a funny thing, and word of mouth is apparently a bit a head of the ear. I hope it was nerves...
...time in the first quarter, DeJong and Detora sent perfectly placed corner kicks across the goal mouth, too hard for the goalie to move out on, at the perfect height for the brawny Brown forwards...
Today, Mr. U.S. finishes his breakfast of frozen orange juice and diet-bread toast, pops a vitamin pill into his mouth, steps into his fastback Barracuda, punches the tape deck button for swing or symphony, and heads for the freeway. The six-lane concrete strip lets him proceed at 65 m.p.h. toward his office in town-except when there are so many other cars going the same way that he can listen to all of Beethoven's Ninth. By the time he gets to the office, his wife has already called-from the pink, push-button Princess extension...
...talking with two other Negroes, apparently his managers. While his voice is too soft to hold my attention, my eyes keep returning to his tired mouth and tired face...
History may yet record these sweet reflections less as a hymn to quietude than as the last muffled cry of the ostrich as its mouth fills up with sand...