Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born in Thailand, thus assuring the kingdom of doubly good fortune. And so, in the traditional three-hour ceremonies at Chiangmai, King Bhumibol welcomed the albino baby. Buddhist and Brahman priests chanted blessings; the King poured lustral water, presented golden robes to the tyke, and then stuffed its mouth with sugar-cane stalks inscribed with the lucky beast's name, Phisanuphan (meaning "auspicious royal elephant"). That last touch is crucial, since without it, a white elephant soon forgets what he's called...
...TIME'S story on Russian Poet Osip Mandelstam [Jan. 7], you quote Mandelstam's line about Stalin's "putting a raspberry in his mouth" after each death, and then later, in describing the poet's arrest, you say that Stalin "who was known to like raspberries, put a ripe one in his mouth." Mandelstam's reference to raspberries was in a very special, nonliteral, slang sense. As for Stalin's actual craving for the fruit, who knows? I certainly am unaware of much evidence. Moreover, it is not true that Mandelstam was exiled...
Flaherty was born in 1884 with an iron spoon in his mouth. Son of a Minnesota mining engineer, he went to work as a prospector at 16. At 26 he made his first penetration of the far north-outwardly to search for ore in the Hudson Bay country, inwardly to search for an arctic ascesis. He found it among the Eskimos. During the next nine years they led him on a hundred expeditions and taught him to live as men live when they have nothing in life but life. "In the long arctic night," a friend later said...
...tell Scotch from bourbon if he is blindfolded and holds his nose. Bishop invites doubters to make the test by having someone else set up the experiment (teetotalers can substitute quinine water and coffee). It is all academic anyway, since most people prefer to drink with eyes, nose and mouth open. Just the same, the book makes pleasant bar-time reading...
Castles & Beaches. The regime was too smart to look a gift horde in the mouth. It started plugging tourism for all it was worth. Spain's stern moral codes were relaxed to permit bikinis on beaches where 15 years before men had been arrested for not wearing tops. Resort hotels sprouted in bunches, and the government added nine Spanish castles and monasteries to its own network of hostels and inns. Iberia airlines bought 18 new jets and more than doubled its flights to make Spanish beaches easier to reach...