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Word: mouthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are 23 different places in the body where various kinds of cancers occur. Examination for cancer should include search of the skin, mouth, throat, lungs, stomach & bowels, rectum, prostate, uterus and breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Club | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...looked at Gray. There was no sign of life and he was bleeding from the mouth. I couldn't get him to talk to me. So I took the gun and turned my head and emptied it. I went back and looked at Ross again . . . and I thought he was dead. I shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mercy Kidnapper | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...putting hackneyed remarks in anybody's mouth. Your reviewer is finding fault with sworn testimony from a naval court of inquiry and Congressional committee of investigation. The conversation in Hell on Ice is directly, word for word, out of the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

They chuckled and even laughed aloud between phrases of their most damaging admissions. As Vishinsky would get half through a sentence the prisoner he was supposed to be grilling would snatch the words out of his mouth and finish the sentence before the prosecutor could-and since it was the agreed sentence Vishinsky let it go at that. The usual dramatic effects Vishinsky has standardized were also given. Thus when a prisoner named Prokopy Zubarev testified that in the remote past the Tsarist police gave him 15 rubles ($7.50) on two successive occasions, Vishinsky responded with his menacing stage whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Lined With Despair | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...consists simply of splitting up our forces in three columns, and while one of these engages the enemy's attention with a vigorous frontal attack, the two others work around each end of the enemy's positions to meet behind them and close the mouth of the pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Pocket Maneuver | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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