Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they did. With part of his hobgoblin flotilla, Vice Admiral Keyes attacked the canal's protecting mole to create a diversion (one of the submarines rammed the mole's viaduct, exploded as planned), while the three concrete-laden block-boats steamed into the mouth of the canal, touched off explosives and sank in the channel. The losses were appalling, the instances of gallantry uncountable. One of the diverting boats alone sustained 182 casualties. One man, shot through the middle, wrapped his vessel's ensign around him, went on fighting. Two officers, both painfully wounded in the legs...
...where 20 years' experience is a major requirement, he has been the No. 1 U. S. harness-racing driver for eleven of the past twelve years, has won 763 first places since 1925 (including the Hambletonian twice), has never raced without a kitchen match in his mouth...
...citizen's idea of a Member of Parliament. His name is Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Ramsbottom). He studied at Oxford, fought gallantly in the War. His frosty monocle magnifies a warm twinkle. He wears striped shirts, and talks as if he had some hot Yorkshire pudding in his mouth. His strength lies in his solid conservatism, his besetting weakness is for classical quotations...
...aides never hand records back & forth, they throw them. With a great play at keeping everything Grade A on the Milkman's Matinee, Assistant John Flora prepares pots of refreshing black coffee for all hands, takes over the mike now and then if Stan's mouth is full. When 7 a. m. rolls around, the crew go out and have dinner; if the weather is right, they ride out to Floyd Bennett Field and hire a plane (all three are licensed pilots). By afternoon, Stan is usually in bed for the day. He gets up in the middle...
...Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, so trained his dog that he had only to ring a bell to make its mouth water. The governments of Europe hope to make their citizens' flight to safety just as automatic when the air-raid sirens wail...