Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aftosa, First of All. Last summer Mexicans were rash enough to import 320 tickproof Brazilian zebu bulls. The bulls brought the dread aftosa, or foot-&-mouth disease. By last week an epidemic had spread through ten states, and excited patrons were refusing perfectly good steak in Mexico City restaurants. Worst of all, the U.S., soundly fearing infection of its own herds, had banned the import of Mexican cattle. This was a deep hurt; 500,000 head shipped over the border each year make a big difference in northern Mexico's prosperity. Last week, while the U.S. Congress shoved through...
Although he has spent 55 minutes in the penalty box this season, he is not a rough player. (Says Coach Dick Irvin: "He is the most marked man in the league. He has done well because he keeps his mouth shut, his ears open and his hands up.") The Rocket saves his tantrums for the golf course where he often breaks a club over his knee in a magnificent rage. At home, easygoing Maurice Richard lets his wife, Lucille, do the talking as well as the cooking. Says he: "She's not too bad . . . she's 21 - just...
...long been looking hungrily at records. The business was a jungle full of small fry (some 230 manufacturers), lorded over by Victor. Decca and Columbia. The fry was numerous enough and appetizing enough to make Leo's mouth water. With 5,000,000 record-players (including 500,000 jukeboxes) in use throughout the U.S., the industry sold 287 million records in 1946, expects to do nearly twice as well...
...author's being red but to some of his passages being "too purple to be read by children." Novelist Fast had written too much about breasts, virgins and "oceans of flesh," put phrases like "I lick God's belly" into Deist Paine's mouth...
...most prominent of his contributions to the Copley exhibition is "Road to the Factory," which he terms "an abstract painting with social significance." It depicts a crowded tenament district, with a road in the background leading into the smoke-belching mouth of a steel mill...