Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nikita Khrushchev had been born in a mud-and-reed hut in the village of Kalinovka on the Kursk steppe, where as a barefoot boy he had tended cattle. He grew up to have the Russian peasant's rough manners (even today he sometimes stuffs his mouth with food at public banquets, picks his teeth with his fingers). He was short (5 ft. 5 in.) and thickset with a round face and jug ears. He had small, dark, merry, merciless eyes and was as shrewd and crafty as he looked...
Infant's first search for gratification is limited to release of hunger tension-oral phase. If there is no nipple handy, he puts thumb in mouth. Next comes satisfaction from defecation-anal phase. Third, pleasure from sensation in sexual parts-phallic phase. (Association of sexual gratification with reproduction-genital phase-does not come until sexual maturity.) Beginning about age two, the child's emotional attachment to mother leads to wishes to displace father-Oedipal feelings (the older, more rigid concept of an Oedipus complex is now frowned upon...
Getaway Day. In Houston, Mrs. Sammie Lee Hicks described her husband for the missing persons bureau: "He has a flat forehead and a large nose and mouth. All in all, he looks like a horse...
Patriot's Proof. At a time when critics from Reykjavik to London to New Delhi are potshotting at the U.S., there was very little freshness in Mollet's words; the newness was that they should come from the mouth of a French Premier. Only three weeks before, Mollet's Foreign Minister and Fellow Socialist Christian Pineau had made a calculatingly indiscreet speech suggesting that there was no longer a common purpose in Western foreign policy (TIME, March 12). Behind such taunts and twists were a whole hatful of political factors, not the least Mollet...
Penmanship. In Youngstown, Ohio, awaiting trial on two counts of forgery, Lorene Montgomery gave city detectives a demonstration of her craft, wrote two clearly legible signatures at once while holding one fountain pen in her mouth, another in the crook...