Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phil Murray was just back from ten days in Florida, looking fitter than usual. The lines were gone from around his brown eyes and his firm mouth. Behind the big walnut desk in his green-walled office looking out on Washington's Jackson Place and the White House, he was every inch the boss...
...General Morgan, he was an able administrator and officer (as deputy chief of staff to General Eisenhower, he had helped plan the Normandy invasion), but he sometimes talked too much. Said a correspondent: "His foot and his mouth have a great affinity." UNRRA asked him to resign. Morgan refused...
...virtually completed its flood control and navigation projects in 1945. It closed the mile-and-a-half-long Kentucky Dam near the mouth of the Tennessee River and 480-ft.-high Fontana Dam on he Little Tennessee. With these and the 24 other dams in the system, TVA now has a navigation channel on the Tennessee some 650 miles long; and 13,000,000 acre-feet of water storage space for flood control, navigation and power...
...hollow amid slatternly fences, outhouses and discarded tires. The women and children straggled past the empty coalies on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad spur, and up a barren knoll to the tipple of the Belva Mine. Smoke and burned fragments of cardboard and paper were puffing hotly from the tunnel mouth...
...mother hen to as undependable a brood of gifted musicians as James Petrillo has in his roster. Eddie got them together first at Town Hall jazz concerts. They seemed willing to follow him-even when they couldn't follow everything he said in his elliptical, corner-of-the-mouth mutter. Boasts Eddie: "There's not a blood relative in the band. . . . No red beards. The boys can dress as they please as long as they have shoes...