Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half of her crew were trapped below. The rest, seared and oil-blackened, went overside, were carried out into the Gulf, there picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. Only 14 of her 41 lived to tell how they were attacked, only a mile and a half off the mouth of the country's greatest inland waterway. The U.S. Navy, faced with a greater-challenge than it had met in domestic waters since 1812, knew that it could never stop the filtering of the U-boats through its line until it had destroyed them...
...narrow mouth of Trondheim fjord bristles with German guns. The old ship-building wharf, extended for warships, has been blasted by British bombers. Half a mile outside Trondheim, transatlantic U-boats crouch in shelters dug out of hill sides which are as prone to slide as the hills of Panama. A few miles farther on is Asen fjord, where the really big ships hide: the mighty Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the damaged heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. According to Stockholm reports, the Germans are preparing a full-fledged naval base there, building a drydock big enough to take...
...word vitamins these days is in everybody's mouth, but not the vitamins themselves. U.S. workmen, as a class, do not get enough. The first hardheaded, scientific program for giving U.S. workers enough vitamins appeared in a little booklet published by the National Research Council last fortnight ( The Food and Nutrition of Industrial Workers in Wartime). The booklet would make interesting reading for two kinds of people, neither of whom sufficiently appreciates the merits of fresh fruits, meats and vegetables: housewives who pack lunch pails and the factory managers who install cafeterias. Points...
...suitors all the attention she could get -up to a point. The more armaments either Axis or Ally provided her 1,000,000 tough fighting men, the better. But she did not want to fight. Turkey was playing spin-the-bottle with all belligerents. As yet the mouth of the bottle hadn't turned into the muzzle of a cannon pointed at her and demanding a forfeit...
...Compulsory saving is clearly the method that should be used, for it not only solves the present problem of inflation but the post-war problem of purchasing power as well. If the great mass of the people emerge from this war virtually penniless, living from hand to mouth, just where is the demand to come from which will be needed to convert war production into consumer production? When we win this war, we will be in possession of the greatest industrial machine in the world, a machine whose resources could make possible a standard of living far higher than...