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Word: mouthings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's name to promote his business activities without permission. While McKinney denies this allegation, it remains unclear why rejection of the stock offer is an appropriate response to the alleged misdeed. By itself, it hardly seems an offense sufficient to warrant looking a potential gift horse in the mouth...

Author: By Mitchell Berman, | Title: At Long Last, Divestment | 12/11/1985 | See Source »

...press photograph should snap the trick and save us, oh, I'd guesstimate, 30 or 40 smackers a year, every year," Bok uttered, seeming embarrassed as a wad of chewing gum tumbled from his mouth and onto the floor...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Charles Coming, Rosen Going | 12/8/1985 | See Source »

This adaptation of the traditional baseball batter's helmet has two cup holders mounted on top of the hat which connect to the wearer's mouth with surgical hose. Fill the styrafoam cups, connect the hose and drinking becomes a hands-off matter...

Author: By Russ Muirhead, | Title: Entrepreneur Sells Drinking Helmet | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

Potluck is benefited by Prum's remarkable performance as the host, played to nervous distraction with his mouth gaping open in a permanently dazed expression; this guy is so neurotic he's got sweat coming out of his ears. And the acting by the supporting cast also is fine, especially by John Rabinowitz '85 as a guest who points out the Sartrean dilemma of being and nothingness by throwing himself down on all fours "to pretend to be a hyena"--a cameo that culminates in Rabinowitz taking a chunk out of the leg of a fellow guest. Kudos to Fitch...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: A Feast for All | 11/16/1985 | See Source »

...tall or a football player too massive is funny in itself. But the Washington Bullets' Manute Bol and the Chicago Bears' William Perry are straining the boundaries of humor and humanity. Perry has become known wide and far as "the refrigerator," and not because whenever he opens his mouth a light goes on. "I was big when I was little," he likes to say, 13 1/2 lbs. at his birth nearly 23 years ago in Aiken, S.C. He grew to almost 400 lbs., or "350 and rising," according to Clemson University's limited scales. Against Wake Forest once, Perry blocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hurry, Hurry, Step Right Up | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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