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Word: mouthfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with little bulges of fat straining the buttons, says that Frank has been aggressive, and tonight's debate looked particularly good because for once they had all spent some time working on his speeches. As we're talking, Mastrangelo bites down on the wet cigar he holds in his mouth. He doesn't want to hear anything about the way the campaign went earlier this fall. He wants to start all over, and hopes it isn't too late. He pats a young Harvard type on the back, "I'm really expecting a lot of work...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: You Sure You Want a Governor? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Seith has depicted Percy as a do-nothing Senator who spends most of his time on the Georgetown cocktail circuit and tries to hide an "abysmal" voting record. Charged Seith: "He speaks out of both sides of his mouth." By criticizing the sale of jets to Saudi Arabia, Seith hopes to gain support from Jews. He has also been running an unfair advertisement on Chicago's black radio stations implying that Percy approved the racial jokes that cost former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz his job in 1976. The ads do not mention that Percy himself had called for Butz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Percy's Problem | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Welsh novels of James Hanley are peopled by a nation of poets. An old man recites a story in a pub and "the sun came out of his mouth"; the storyteller's auditor reports to his wife: "That Roberts man broke open his tight mouth and warmed the whole place with a tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reviving the Story-Telling Art | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...though, Ed King looked pretty nervous. His eyes darted around the platform, in front of Lynn City Hall all decorated with American flags and pots of yellow mums, like he was watching for someone to blind-side him from the left. And his mouth, drawn up tight, must have had a bad taste in it. Even the president of the United States couldn't stop the boos and hisses which greeted King's introduction...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Said the Peanut to the King | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

HARVARD AT PRINCETON YALE AT PENN D'MOUTH AT CORNELL COLUMBIA AT RUTGERS HOLYCROSS AT BROWN SEASON (Pct.) JOHN DONLEY Harvard 45-16 Yale 14-13 Cornell 21-16 Rutgers 21-10 Holy Cross 28-20 16-11 (.593) ROB SIDORSKY Harvard 26-21 Yale 17-0 Cornell 15-14 Rutgers 28-14 Brown 28-24 15-12 (.556) DAN GIL Harvard 27-10 Penn 21-13 Cornell 23-21 Rutgers 24-14 Holy Cross 24-14 15-12 (.556) MARK DIRECTOR Harvard 34-10 Yale 27-13 Dartmouth 17-14 Rutgers 28-17 35-12 14-13 (.519) BILL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sports Cube Predicts... | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

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