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Word: mouthings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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From a bank of fog loitering along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, the waves emerge silently, advancing slowly and uniformly, like long thin lines of infantry, on the mouth of the Rio Grande. The river, exhausted after its tortuous odyssey along more than half of the 2,076-mile U.S.-Mexican border, offers little resistance to this serried assault. Its tired brown water backs up and bivouacs in a lagoon near a white lighthouse, and from there it slips, as stealthily as a camp deserter, into the Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey Along the U.S.-Mexico Border | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...senior, Morton sees his job as both pass catcher and motivator. A man with moves and a loud mouth...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Morton: A Star Hidden by Gray Clouds | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

Dukakis used many of his father's gestures and the characteristic licking of the corner of his mouth. The governor's son also showed his own acting experience. John Dukakis starred as the sheriff's son in Jaws II, and was a regular on Family Ties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bay State Dems Stage Rally for Duke Ticket | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

...waited for the T shuttle. Across the tracks at the Blue Line stop, the woman on a temp poster had been spray painted to look like a snaggle-toothed devil; someone had even taken the trouble to climb over the third rail, draw in a penis by her mouth and scrawl, "Suck it baby." I hoped I wouldn't have totemp...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

History proves that this group has never had that kind of profit margin--this group leads a very hand-to-mouth existence. The group collects very little revenue annually and expends only what is necessary to put together a season. The group is not capable of spending what they don't have on extravagant trips, lavish parties or extended weekend retreats. Many times I and several other members of the Bach Society, which cannot depend on a strong alumni foundation for support as some other performing organizations on campus, have been called upon to put up their own personal funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discussing Orchestra Finances | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

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