Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Saltonstall speeches sound like the last one. Yet the words that turn to platitudes in the mouth of a slick politician somehow sound like plain truths from this plain man. Some of his recurrent credos...
...decision or make a plan. ... I know you will not forget that this Administration, formed in an hour of disaster by the leaders of the Conservative, Labor and Liberal parties in good faith and good will, has brought Britain out of the jaws of death, back from the mouth of hell, while all the world wondered. I know you will not forget that...
...rarely without a pipe in his mouth, a pencil in his hand and an idea for "a better way" to do whatever is being done. At home, in peacetime, he relaxed by working in a cellar machine shop building boats, driving a tractor on his New Hampshire farm. Now much too busy to indulge his various hobbies, he nonetheless startled his wife this winter by suddenly taking up late evening basket-weaving...
Along the 500-mile-long front, from the Dnieper's mouth to the Carpathians, four Red Armies hacked their way forward. Their prime objective: the web of railroads over which the enemy could be reinforced-or retreat. This week, all but one inferior escape line into Rumania had been cut. Birds of ill omen hovered over the fringes of the German-held steppe -air transports were dropping fuel and supplies to stalled trucks and tanks...
...there are touches, tender beyond the reach of invention. A boy who has withdrawn from the fight stands by a tree, exhausted, pinching the bridge of his nose. A young man holds gauze to his shot mouth and retires from the battle with precisely the hunched, half-stumbling gait of an athlete taken out of a game. There are two moments of greatness: the slow, tentative wading ashore of the relief troops on the fourth day (no camera recorded the slaughter of 300 to 400 on the second); the faces of the marines as they watch the flag rise...