Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland they were talking about the Mauna Ala, which grounded while groping for the mouth of the Columbia River in a blackout, and the 60,000 Christmas trees which washed ashore while the freighter broke up. In San Francisco they were talking about flares dropped from an enemy plane, about lack of fish, shrimps, crabs (because the fishing fleets could not put out), about the Governor's fight with the Attorney General on what a state of emergency meant...
Blacked out, she was led by a Navy launch toward the minefield sown in the harbor's mouth beyond Corregidor's forbidding heights. Somehow in the dark she ran past the launch. The warning shout from the launch was lost in a vast red explosion. The old Corregidor, her hull burst, settled in shark-ridden waters...
Then from each black, accursed mouth The cannon thundered in the South, And with the sound The carols drowned Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said...
...Said Dr. Snapper: "The parasitic disease which places its mark all over internal medicine in North China is kala-azar....It has to be considered in nearly every patient." This hideous malady, caused by tiny protozoa (Leishmania), produces an enormous spleen, anemia, and ulcers around the mouth, robs the body of its white blood cells, kills 95% of its victims who are not treated. Antimony is a specific for the disease, but of course few of its victims ever see a doctor until the disease is far advanced. Kala-azar is primarily an affliction of dogs, is passed to human...
...lined up for the face-off in both previous games: Art Lee, Tom Ayres, and Bill Whittington on the forward line, Dick Mechem and Paul Coste, both of whom scored unassisted goals on solo sprints against Mt. St. Charles, at the defense posts, and Jim Summers in the goal mouth...