Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Pots. In Ogden, Utah, Victor Adams dipped his hand into a box to draw the winner of a $1,000 war-bond lottery, drew his own name. In Gordon, Wis., Autoist Roy Guest saw a hawk overhead with a partridge in its mouth, honked his horn twice, startled the hawk into dropping the bird in front...
...barely got the words out of his mouth when some 25,000 United Mine Workers in Alabama and Indiana struck, reasoning traditionally: "No contract, no work." The nation, recalling last spring's three costly coal walkouts (a loss to war production of 20,000,000 tons of coal, 75-100,000 tons of steel), now turned a hard, accusing stare on John L. Lewis...
...Appian Way. Powerful Allied blows hit the German flanks. A British amphibian force struck north of the Volturno's mouth, from the Tyrrhenian Sea. German artillery lay in wait. But that did not stop the Tommies. From American-type, bow-opening craft they landed, dug in. Offshore, the British destroyers Laforey and Lookout and The Netherlands gunboat Flores shelled the German defenses. The action was fierce, costly. But the bridgehead...
Nearly everybody in the U.S. harbors organisms of trench mouth, may develop the disease if his resistance gets too low from poor nutrition or a bender. Then a bacillus and a spirochete (and sometimes other mouth germs) work together to produce tender, bleeding gums (medical name: Vincent's stomatitis) or throat and tonsil infections (medical name: Vincent's angina). Mouthwashing with hydrogen peroxide is one of the commonest treatments. But treatment usually goes on & on in serious cases...
Last week two doctors claimed that they have developed speedy remedies for trench mouth...