Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Venezuelans are scattered from the mouth of the Orinoco to Maracaibo, but nearly two-thirds of them live in Caracas, where they help to create an atmosphere of hustle and bustle rare in Latin America. From the equator to the Rio Grande, Venezuela is the only country where well-paid Europeans perform manual labor. Hard-working Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese dig ditches, pour concrete, lay bricks, hammer nails. The immigrants seldom fool around on the job; when it rains, they don slickers and keep working. There is some local resentment of the newcomers' all-work-and-no-play attitude...
Catholic authorities, to keep emotions down, refrained from announcing Perón's excommunication in the churches. That fact remained largely a matter of word-of-mouth information in Argentina; a radio station, endlessly playing tangos, jammed broadcasts from Uruguay...
...William Purcell Witcutt's mouth clicked shut like a snap lock when British reporters tried to interview him six years ago on his reasons for quitting the Roman Catholic Church and rejoining the Church of England. This week the lock opened smoothly with U.S. publication of Anglican Witcutt's Return to Reality (Macmillan; $1.65)-a well-written attack upon Roman Catholic doctrine...
...foyer . . . Her feet were thrust into tiny gold slippers twinkling with jewels, and jade and ivory bracelets clattered on her arms. She had the longest fingernails I'd ever seen, each lacquered a delicate green. An almost endless bamboo cigarette holder hung languidly from her bright red mouth . . . There was a moment's silence. 'But darling,' she said dramatically, 'I'm your Auntie Mame!' She put her arms around me and kissed me, and I knew I was safe...
...called on the President of the U.S. In the chair it placed The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens, 60, a familiar U.N. figure. But when the conference got under way, the man in charge was a slim and sandy-haired Swede with an easy smile, a sensitive mouth, and eyes the same color as the light blue U.N. flag. He is Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the U.N. and the world's No. 1 international civil servant...