Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told the officers that Hardwick might be in his bedroom. The officers checked and found Hardwick with another man.) Although the prosecution dropped the sodomy charge, Hardwick sued for a ruling on Georgia's law that prohibits "any sex act involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another" and provides a prison term of up to 20 years. The case reached the Supreme Court this spring. A Georgia assistant attorney general argued that a ruling protecting private homosexual and heterosexual acts between consenting adults would undermine the state's efforts to maintain a "decent...
...stage fright, a seasoned veteran at the game offered a few hints about how to behave in front of the cameras. "Learn your lines," advised Ronald Reagan at a White House breakfast for Senators last week. "Don't bump into the furniture. And in the kissing scenes, keep your mouth closed...
...Pachter, a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, foreigners may turn to the left precisely because they like American pop so much. At least in Europe, argues Pachter, youthful political anti-Americanism is a way of "justifying their enormous thirst for American pop culture. As long as they can bad-mouth the society that produces the stuff, they don't feel so bad about indulging in its exports." But even then, apolitical American targets are not always off limits. After the U.S. bombing of Libya in April, a mob in Barcelona stoned a local McDonald's. Last year Peruvian Marxists sprayed...
...sandwich like this," says Steiner. "It has to be many thin slices folded at the edges so there is the right texture, and the meat must be even on the bread so the customer doesn't bite through empty sides. That takes training." Nor can just anyone open a mouth wide enough to bite into one of those beefy extravaganzas. That takes training too, as does the capacity to ingest a complete sandwich at a single sitting. No wonder many customers take home uneaten halves for later meals...
...accident: "The nightingale concert over Pripyat goes on both night and day." Yet, in a demonstration of disdain for Western-style rock, Soviet officials did not publicly announce last week's concert for the evacuated residents of the Chernobyl area. Muscovites learned of the benefit by word of mouth or from a smattering of street posters...