Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negro 136th legislative district, taking a remarkable 82% of the vote. He had been little heard from until last week, when he showed that election to office had not taught him one valuable political talent: knowing when to keep his mouth shut...
According to Gunness, publicity directed toward both the schools and possible applicants for the program will be conducted mainly through "feelers into the community and by word of mouth through public and private agencies." He mentioned settlement houses, social workers, and guidance counselors as primary sources through which to find applicants...
Schistosoma parasites hatch in water, then have a complex life cycle: they enter the body of a snail, progress to a second larval form, then emerge and enter the human body either by mouth or through the skin. In man they cause a lifelong debilitating disease marked by coughs, rashes, blood in the urine, fever and nausea; eventually they attack the liver, lungs, spleen and brain...
...happy with half-men around him. They make touching and funny animal sounds. He alone talks Russian. One after another, his sentences like horseshoes! He pounds them out. He always hits the nail, the balls. After each death, he is like a Georgian tribesman, putting a raspberry in his mouth...
...days later, the Georgian tribesman in the Kremlin, who was known to like raspberries, put a ripe one in his mouth. Betrayed by one of the writers in Pasternak's parlor, Mandelstam was arrested on Stalin's personal order and banished to Siberia. His poetry was suppressed and is still almost entirely unknown in the Soviet Union, while in the West his reputation has been obscured by trite translations...