Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mukherjee's] hair is very long and it was hanging in his face," said Gilmore. "He was wearing dirty and ripped clothing, and he rubbed his nose and mouth with his bare hands while making the sandwiches...
...Moye and fellow student Kathy Yep, who have worked with rape crisis groups and were rewriting a University pamphlet on rape, called a meeting Monday as an outlet for students' feelings. More than 100 women and six or seven men attended the meeting, which was publicized by word of mouth...
...from glorious end for a river that for 140 years has been the most tangible physical divide between the U.S. and Mexico as well as the symbolic frontier between the two dominant cultures of the New World. As I skipped stones across the river's mouth with just one bounce, I felt vaguely disappointed. The Rio Grande ought at least live up to its name and course majestically eastward before spilling vigorously into the gulf...
More than 2,000 miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande, a marble obelisk with the number 258 marks the Pacific boundary of the frontier. On the U.S. side of the wire-mesh fence, this one corroded by the sea air, sanitation workers are emptying trash cans set about the neatly cut lawns of a small park. On the Mexican side of the fence an eroded gully is filled with garbage. What was once the Playa Azul restaurant is drunkenly toppling sideways, its concrete supports undermined...
...Democrats, for their part, kicked off the campaign at their convention with an orgy of anti-Bush preppie bashing. The most quoted line, delivered by Ann Richards in her keynote speech, was that Bush was born "with a silver foot in his mouth." The best lines came from Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, depicting a gathering of Bushmen around the yacht-club bar, "sipping a delightfully fruity and frisky white wine, saying 'Play it again, George!' " This was not random abuse but an effort to energize voters who expect Democrats to look out for the little guy -- a venerable Democratic...