Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to start wider-scale field trials with a vaccine that is in almost every respect the opposite to Salk's. It is made from "attenuated" virus-particles incapable of producing paralysis but strong enough to stimulate immunizing antibodies. This virus is used live. It is given by mouth in a single dose. Dr. Sabin has already tried it on 130 prisoner-volunteers, needs thousands of subjects for fuller proof of its safety and efficacy...
Outside World. Onstage or off, Hackett has the wide-eyed responses of a small boy. When he picks up a phone, pudgy fingers aflutter, he stretches an inquiring eye, screws up his brow, puckers the right corner of his rubbery mouth and startles the operator with Broadwayese: "Connect me to de outside woirld!" Or again, he leaps from a chair and plunges into a routine as ad-libbed as most of his acts. "They used to say whenever someone turned on a light, I started performing...
Hank Holmes, Crimson left outside, scored the winning goal midway through the first overtime period on a pass across the mouth of the goal from Ken McIntosh. McIntosh, right outside, accounted for the other two Crimson markers. Ford and Hall scored for Amherst...
...opened the door. In the waiting room a girl with long, dark, hair, who wore a black skirt and sweater chatted with the boy next to her. In the background the radios from the wireless club whined and sputtered. She placed a cigarette in the side of her mouth, struck the match three times until it lit, inhaled deeply, then turned her eyes slowly toward the doorway...
...tobacco, with one patient's pulse reported jumping from a rate of 46 to 94 within three minutes of lighting a cigarette. Still more provocative was the case of a man whose pulse went from 68 to 104 after he merely held a cold, empty pipe in his mouth for two minutes. Proponents of idioblapsis believe that it may be the direct precursor of heart attacks or even cancer. Happy with what they called a "revolutionary, all-important theory," allergists scattered from Florence to their home cities, vowing to seek proof of it in their patients' pulses...