Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Ostracized by both families, the honeymooning couple crossed the Atlantic to New York. Hunting for a home in the wilderness, they reached Pittsburgh by post, floated down the Ohio River on a keelboat. Some 14 miles below Marietta and hard by the mouth of the Little Kanawha, the wandering Blennerhassetts came upon a narrow island three miles long. There, in 1798, Harman Blennerhassett began building a mansion...
...anything from secession from the U. S. to an invasion of Mexico. Tired of his isolation, Blennerhassett readily helped finance the promotion. In May 1805 Burr first visited Blennerhassett Island. By the following year it had become headquarters for the proposed expedition. In December 1806 Burr was at the mouth of the Cumberland with 60 stalwart recruits, waiting for the flotilla of keelboats and supplies of men and munitions which were being assembled at Blennerhassett Island. But they never arrived. At this critical juncture a Federal agent, detailed to spy on Burr and Blennerhassett, sent back his report to Washington...
Rimmed with British anti-aircraft guns, the mouth of Alexandria's harbor was crammed with British war boats. From England and from India brigades of infantry poured in. Squadron after squadron of British battle planes arrived via Greece to settle down on the well-sandbagged British air base back of Abukir Bay where Lord Nelson demolished a French fleet and "the boy stood on the burning deck...
...sense of taste is a chemical reaction which occurs in the minute tulip-shaped clusters of cells scattered thinly and irregularly over the tongue. There are a few "taste buds" elsewhere in the mouth, some even on the tonsils. Each bud distinguishes one of four tastes: sour, sweet, bitter, salt. Babies are born fully outfitted with taste buds-about...
...Petya Gulliver, sees himself cast up, after mutiny and shipwreck, on the desolate coast of Lilliputia. The tiny citizens bind his arms and feet with threads. The fierce police chief arrives in a nutshell armored car. The fire department of Lilliputia runs a hose into his mouth. An army of tanks hitched to a gigantic platform haul him to the capital where the idiot king of Lilliputia is presiding over a special session of the Senate convened to dispose of Dr. Gulliver...