Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fourteen-carat gold in my mouth, silk upon my back...
...says no. Tommy says yes. Dickie sighs. CBS says bad taste. Tommy, popping another ulcer pill into his mouth, says O.K., we quit. Dickie yawns elaborately. CBS says O.K., O.K., you can say, "Good night all you draft dodgers in Canada. We'll probably be seeing you next November," but no fair using that line "Go fa la la yourself...
...drums beat. Then there were speeches in English, French and the local language, Twi. At last Yaa was handed up to the platform, where a technician stood poised with his jet gun. He placed it against Yaa's arm and pressed the pedal trigger. Yaa opened her mouth in a gap-toothed smile...
...when John Connor quit after two frustrating years of steadily diminishing influence over U.S. economic policy. Though the post looked like a backwater, Trowbridge worked skillfully to bolster sagging department morale, pleased the White House with his loyalty in promoting Administration policies and his ability to keep his mouth shut about Commerce's many vacancies in top jobs. His reward was not only appointment last May as full-fledged Secretary-youngest in the department's history-but also a rising role in such Administration efforts as attracting business interest in slum problems, trying to end the long copper...
Hunt is an emotional arsonist who starts fires in others simply to watch them burn. Semple becomes his natural prey. Hunt constantly involves him in schoolyard beatings without ever fighting himself. He goads Semple into cramming a billiard ball into his mouth, dislocating his jaw. Finally Hunt taunts him into a shed where Hunt's own girl lies, ready to seduce him. Semple finds the confrontation so frightening that he loses all hold on rationality, murders the girl, and is committed as criminally insane...