Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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California is a mouth-watering morsel for any presidential aspirant. With 81 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention, it shares with Pennsylvania the party's second-strongest honors (first: New York with 114). And since taking office nine months ago, California's able, amiable Governor Edmund G. Brown has been wooed like a Spanish infanta for those votes. Every major candidate has gone West to learn "Pat" Brown's intentions, and Brown has parried them all with the answer that he will lead California's delegation to the convention as a favorite...
...usual one chilly morning last week, got off about 9 o'clock at the corner of Chaikovskovo Street and Vorovskovo Street, a block from his office. Suddenly, in the very best Eric Ambler fashion, five civilianclad men closed in around him, efficiently pinned his arms, covered his mouth, hauled him into a nearby alley where waited a Zim, the Buick-copied car used by junior Red officials...
McCall's tie-breaking goal also took the spotlight away from sophomore Ted Wendell, whose first goal as a varsity player tied the Indians and gave the Crimson new life. At 14:55 of the second period, John McIntosh passed from the far right across the goal mouth, and after a fast scramble for the ball, Wendell managed to flip it into the nets. The ball floated high over Ellington's outstretched hands and passed just below the cross...
...indeed. There are thousands of 'its' one can do, but you won't think of them. You could drive down to Gloucester and catch a dolphin, and then put it on your mantle piece with an apple in its mouth. Or you could go to Franklin Park Zoo and watch the seals, they swim all night. But you won't, the House dances are much closer and everyone is going...
...sergeants after their arrest, told the court he had not been permitted to talk to them until they had been in prison about 30 hours. When he did, "King was shaking nervously, could hardly speak, and had difficulty standing up . . . He had a secretion at the corner of his mouth which appeared to be dried blood." McCuistion, testified Wilkinson, was in worse shape: "He was crying and weeping and saying, 'Colonel, they beat me within an inch of my life...