Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently he approached a tunnel near Siena at treetop level, released his delayed-action bombs just short of the mouth, pulled away in a vertical bank. The bombs popped into the tunnel like peanuts into the mouth of an urchin, and when they exploded they left the south end of the tunnel an impassable mess of rubble...
Forbidden Ground. On the invasion rim, from King's Lynn on The Wash down past Great Yarmouth, the herring port, past Harwich, home of Britain's famed gunnery school, to the misty mouth of the Thames, where Sheerness and Shoeburyness stand guard, to the North Foreland around by Dover and Beachy Head to Southampton and on to the Devon towns and Land's End in Cornwall, only those with identity cards might...
...Story. In New Britain, Conn., Ralph Prims met a man with a dog, claimed the dog was his own. "Prove it," said the stranger. Holding a match in front of the dog's mouth, Prims said: "Blow...
...England, Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. again put both feet in his mouth, where there was obviously room for his cavalry boots as well. In high spirits over his sudden emergence from obscurity and his announced role as commander of a U.S. invasion army (TIME, May 1), Patton gave a speech of welcome to a mixed U.S. and British audience at the opening of a new club for soldiers...
...York Times's gangling, 36-year-old Frank L. Kluckhohn is regarded by his colleagues as an energetic but sometimes foot-in-mouth reporter. Last week in the Southwest Pacific, Correspondent Kluckhohn gave them another example of his style: a close-up of the U.S. "Ace of Aces"-stocky, 23-year-old Major Richard Ira Bong (TIME, April 24). Correspondent Kluckhohn doubtless meant his story to be warm, sympathetic, Ernie Pyle-like. If so, he missed his target by a wide margin. Wrote...