Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hand-to-Mouth. British industry was in no holiday mood, either. "If there is any letup in production," said Sir Stafford Cripps of Britain's export-or-die program, "we shall come a cropper in a year or two." The export goal, 175% of 1938 volume, had looked close last July: exports were up to 120%. But by November they had slipped to 117%. And last week, due to lack of coal, the export program was well on its way to coming a cropper...
When the U.S. slammed the door on Mexican cattle imports last June, Mexicans were hopping mad. Nonsense, they said; those fine Brahma bulls (which they had imported from Brazil) did not have foot & mouth disease. But the bulls did carry the dread disease, and Mexican herds in four central states and the Federal District were infected. Last week, energetic President Aleman set in motion a $40 million, three-month campaign to smash the epidemic. Emergency squads prepared to slaughter and cremate as many as a million head of cattle-one-tenth of Mexico's herds...
After that, it was Bilbo's turn. Before the hearing, a Mississippi doctor had told committee investigators that the Senator has cancer of the mouth. Wasted, and minus his lower plate. Bilbo sat in the wit ness chair from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. While his voice clogged and his shoulders sagged, he spat at his inquisitors like a treed cougar...
...daily insulin since he was ten, admiring Australians showered him with fan letters, flocked to watch him practice, wondered how he did it. He figured exercise was good for him (burned up the sugar). One time during a match he suffered an insulin reaction, popped a sweet into his mouth, went on playing...
...needing money, he returned to fiction with sardonic, sentimental fairy tales like Three Wise Guys, the story of the Nativity retold in Runyon's "historical present," by a modern Grimm who talked out of the corner of his mouth. With Howard Lindsay, he turned out a play, A Slight Case of Murder. A score of his stories (Little Miss Marker, etc.) became movies; a few, like The Big Street (1942) he produced himself. Hearst christened The Brighter Side, the daily column where Runyon's endearing ignoramuses, Joe and Ethel Turp, were born...