Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slogan seemed to be catching on. It had traveled from mouth to mouth from the moment Candidate John Bricker, cracking at the P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman, used it fortnight ago. Delighted GOPsters played it to a fare-ye-well; perhaps they had hold of a really damaging weapon, a phrase that would turn out to be as telling as "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" proved to be in 1884, or "Turn the rascals...
...train stood on a siding at Halifax, N.S. In the observation car sat a pudgy little man in a visored naval cap, a cheroot in his mouth, his horn-rimmed glasses focused on a newspaper. Outside, a huge crowd swirled and pushed, straining against police lines. The crowd, dressed in its Sunday best, burst into song: first, Roll Out the Barrel; then There'll Always Be an England. Finally, the pudgy man, not relinquishing his cheroot, shuffled to the rear platform, acknowledged the crowd's cheers, and asked for Tipperary. The crowd gave it to him, while Winston...
...shifted his greatest strength to the eastern end of the line, struck with such force that Kesselring realized this was the main blow. By then it was too late for him to do much about it. The vengeance-seeking Poles battled their way ten miles into Pesaro, at the mouth of the Foglia River. Tough, fanatical Nazis of the ist Parachute Division, who had shown at Cassino that they knew how to fight, showed at Pesaro that they had not forgotten...
Shirt Sleeves. There is nothing of the big business tycoon about Roy Grumman in his office. As soon as he gets there, he takes off his coat. Then he props his feet on the desk or an open drawer, puts a pipe or cigar in his mouth, and is ready to make all the Hellcats the Navy needs...
...action began along a 156-mile front -the mouth of a funnel narrowing into the Galati Gap, where 45 miles of Danubian plain, marsh and delta separate the mountains from the sea. On the Gap's farther side stretch the fat grain fields of Rumania, the high roads to Ploesti's oil, and the strategic plains of Hungary...