Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain and the U.S. have looked everywhere except in the horse's mouth for hints as to how far Russia's offensives will go and what Russian victory may mean. What do the Russians...
...Javanese natives, scorned, beaten, cooperated in some instances with the Japs. But most of them turned the Jap propaganda back on their bowlegged conquerors. They made up their own slogans, which they passed around by word of mouth. One sample: Asia Raya, Nippon Kaya, Asia Paya, which means: in "Greater Asia" Japan will be richer but the rest of Asia will live in misery. The confident Javanese natives had their own three "A"s: Awas Ada America, which means: "Beware, there is America." The Javanese are also biding their time...
Food-rationed U.S. citizens last week heard mouth-watering news. A great overabundance of U.S. wildlife, largely due to the war's curtailment of hunting, was reported by the eighth North American Wildlife Conference in Denver: >Pheasants are so plaguy numerous in some western states (especially the Dakotas) that farmers call them "pests." > Hundreds of thousands of wild ducks have been saved by Coast Guard restrictions, lack of gasoline, fewer hunters. The wild duck population is thought to be the heaviest in years, is making farmers angrier by turning crop lands into "picnic grounds...
Until last summer, when the Army decided not to look its gift horses in the mouth, bad teeth were the largest cause for rejecting drafted men (20.9% of rejected candidates). Now some 2,500,000 "dental cripples," whose teeth may unfit them for service at any time, are being drafted for the 11,000,000-man U.S. Army. Manhattan Dentist Charles L. Hyser has a plan, published last fortnight in Pepper Committee hearings, for making all 2,500,000 dental fit within a year, for about $25 apiece. Estimated average needs per man: two bridges, two extractions, five inlays...
With his clear, healthy, out-country look -5 ft. 7, a basketball middle, baggy, tweedy clothes, shoulders slightly hunched from the desk years, a cherubic, apple face and a toothy mouth out of which he talks enthusiastically sidewise-Will White had strolled into his office at 8:30 that morning, as always. From the chaos on his ancient rolltop desk he had picked, with deftness born of experience, the morning's mail, had summoned Mrs. Minnie Yearout, his longtime secretary, and dictated letters...