Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew" which is kept constantly moving around and around the yard, stopping only twice a day for bread and water. At Monroe, investigators found U. S. prisoners severely punished for "not standing at count . . . speaking in dining room . . . laughing in the cell block . . . making loud popping noises with the mouth." One child had died in his punishment cell...
...knocked out. He began to lead punches that served no purpose beyond enabling him to get close to Schmeling and hold his arms. In the tenth round, he hit Stribling with short lefts and rights to the face, heard his manager, who had taken the cigar out of his mouth, shouting, "Go on Max, you've got him!" Stribling was still on his feet when the round ended...
When the fighters touched hands at the beginning of the fifteenth, Stribling's face was smeared with blood, his mouth was cut and swollen, his left eye had begun to draw together bruised and dark like the halves of a musselshell. He tried to clinch immediately but after two minutes of fighting Schmeling landed the right he had been trying for all through the fight. Stribling fell on his face, got up when the referee had counted nine. He tried to clinch again. When the referee saw that Stribling, leaning in, was supported almost entirely by the punches Schmeling...
...Poughkeepsie; where rain made the Hudson gloomy and smooth, and at New London, where $45,000,000 worth of yachts were crowded into the mouth of the Thames, were rowed last week the two great rowing races of the year...
...Roman Empire passed away, the gleam remained, evoking a face of its own, the Roman Catholic Church. . . . For many years it shone like the morning sun struggling to break through a lowered sky. But then the face began to harden. . . . The features stood out in grotesque distortion, the mouth very wide from shrieking anathemas, the nose long and sharp to detect heresies; and the skin was covered with the scabs of corruption...