Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punster. As such, he has a large, sympathetic but highly competitive following among TIME writers. The urge seems to be irresistible. The signs of a practicing paronomasian at work are easy to spot: the writer hunched over his typewriter chuckling to himself, the smile twitching the corner of his mouth as he turns the story in to be edited, the expectant grin as he waits for the researcher's guffaw when she reads his copy...
...thought to be limited to such major cities as Moscow and Leningrad, is now believed to be spread through much of the country. Though its distribution is still spotty, it is beginning to bear the marks of a network of defensive missiles in a C-shape, with the open mouth of the C facing eastward to the vast China landmass. The system thus would be athwart practically every path that U.S. missiles -launched from silos in the continental U.S. or from aboard submarines in the Atlantic or Mediterranean -would have to cross in order to hit major cities and installations...
...Foot-and-mouth disease is one of the most fiercely contagious of viral infections-for beef cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, deer, antelope and hedgehogs. But even in the midst of epizootics, when tens of thousands of animals have had to be destroyed, man has seemed almost miraculously immune, no matter how closely he may have worked with the afflicted livestock. To Bachelor Bob Brewis, who lived on his brother's farm in Yetlington, a tiny village in England's North Country, a doctor's suggestion that he might have Britain's first human case of foot...
Still, the local cattle were getting sick in increasing numbers, and Brewis did have some mild symptoms. "I felt groggy and thought I was getting the flu," he said. "When the doctor examined me, he found some blisters on my hands and in my mouth. I was banged into a hospital at Newcastle for a week, but there was nothing much the matter with me." Nor was there anything much the doctors could do. There is no effective treatment for the viral disease, but nature's own healing power soon cured Brewis...
...Gipper. Take Micrin. Scene shows a high school football coach. His mouth tastes like a pair of socks after a hard day's scrimmage, but he's too stupid to know it. A player gives him a cold eye and blurts: "Why were the guys whispering? I'll tell you. You have bad breath. BAD BREATH!" Instead of booting the impudent brat out of the locker room, Coach goes on a Micrin bender, leaving the audience to conclude that now, by gosh, his team will get out there against State, and win one for the Gipper...