Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost one motion Banik jumped to attention and opened his mouth, but nothing much came out. When his composure returned, he had his picture taken with the royal couple, shook hands with the King, acknowledged the Queen's hope that he would enjoy himself in London. That night Sergeant Banik was a man with an audience...
Next day the spinal fluid is tested again. If sugar and chlorides have come up to normal (they usually do in that time), the serum dose need not be repeated. After that, blood tests and sulfadiazine by mouth go on for a week, just in case...
...Willkie-minded New York Herald Tribune, after careful analysis, as "possibly not the most disastrous" front man the Party has ever had. With malicious whoops, critics have called him: 1) "the soft underbelly of the Republican Party;" 2) a spokesman who tries to put both feet into his mouth simultaneously; 3) a fictional character invented by the New Deal's foxy old pressagent, Charlie Michelson...
Later, at Field Hospital No. 13, they found he had eight teeth missing, a bad mouth wound, a fracture of the skull, both knees splintered and 102 other small wounds, cuts and burns...
Grizzled, stooping, Paris sewer mason André Pierre paused in his work to test an iron grille before the mouth of a small branch drain. The bars came away in his hand. He crawled in, found his lantern shining across packets of freshly printed bank notes. André thought it wise to summon his companion, Marcel Dumesnil. The men understood at once that they had achieved the impossible, gained unchallenged entry to the burglarproof subterranean vaults of the Banque de France. Swiftly they helped themselves to 25 million francs in 1,000-franc notes...