Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safe & Sound. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Jimmy Larsen, 12, popped a small whistle into his mouth to keep it from covetous playmates, startled the neighborhood by tooting with each breath until the whistle was extracted from his larynx...
...rejected for age. Then he conceived a genuine chance to serve: he asked for a special Senate Committee to investigate war expenditures. Harry Truman put his plodding talents to smoking out Army waste, business grabs and Government inefficiency. His Committee was not so quick to shoot its mouth off as Martin Dies's; people gradually learned that Truman usually knew what he was talking about. The Truman Committee became the nation's wartime watchdog...
While rival networkers boiled and newspapermen scribbled frantically away for future editions, CBS's Midwestern listen ers got the news first-straight and hot from the Senator's mouth...
...pack animals in pokret, often camouflaged by green branches tied on their backs, sneak through the wilderness in single file, some times stretching out several miles. Every man must shout, "Veza!" (Contact!) when he loses sight of the man in front or behind. Orders are continually passed from mouth to mouth along the Indian file. Our first pokret covered 25 miles of wilderness in 14 hours at night...
...whole thing doesn't come through a radio. If you turn the radio on full blast in a live-walled room, something of the sound is there. But try as I will, you can never get it. Your throat becomes a bottleneck and the words jell in your mouth." Even so, his warcasting is the best to date...