Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondent Bigart singled out for special mention the work of 25-year-old Corporal George Sylvester Viereck Jr., who stood in the mouth of the cave blasting away with his Garand rifle at oncoming Nazis while an artillery barrage thundered down on them from the rear. Said Corporal Viereck: "We had a feeling of animal joy as that stuff came down on the surrounding Germans...
...Nazaire-at the mouth of the Loire River on the underbelly of the Brittany peninsula; apparent best attack-landings west, then take the city from the rear...
...Havre - one of the great ports of France, at the mouth of the Seine. Direct attack could come from excellent beaches on the north side...
...Scientific Method. Dr. Fleming stuck a loop of platinum wire into the mold colony, dipped the wire into some mold-growing liquid in a test tube. In less than a week, there was a felt-like growth at the mouth of the tube and a half-inch of cloudy liquid below it. To Dr. Fleming's amazement, the liquid in which the culture grew, even when diluted 800 times, prevented staphylococci from growing at all: "It was therefore some two or three times as strong in that respect as pure carbolic acid...
...thousands of U.S. cinemaddicts Dancer Tilly Losch means a pair of slanted, come-on eyes, a wide, exotic mouth and a series of seductive contortions. Last week, Dancer Losch (who is also the Countess of Carnarvon) was making her Manhattan debut as a painter...