Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground. A double plowline was fastened around his neck. The blow had deafened him; he could not hear the questions. Somebody kicked him in the back and on the head. He was rolled over on his face, and his legs twisted. Blood was running into his nose and mouth from the cut on his head. He heard something about gasoline and knew they were going to burn him. He said he did not do it. He said it again. Somebody yelled: how many want to kill him? How many want to take him back to jail? He heard the roar...
...emanations which are absorbed by the body and, in large enough doses, can cause radium poisoning." Such poisoning, say the doctors, is unlikely. "There is some danger, however, of flakes of the radium paint on the control handles sticking to the hands and later being transferred to the mouth." Preventive: all control handles should have their radium paint covered with a coat of shellac or varnish...
Later in the day Tahiti's word-of-mouth "coconut radio" carried conflicting rumors that General Brunot had been assassinated, that he had effected some sort of coup, that somewhere among the swaying palms there had been general slaughter...
...prewar barter deals with Germany were all small, bothersome, profitless. On an oil deal, the U.S. exporters got 8,000,000 mouth organs; for an auto body press, 200,000 canaries; for a movie, one live hippopotamus...
...where he was a longtime delegate to the League of Nations and later Ambassador to the Vatican, Dr. Ruiz had stopped in Washington for talks with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles. Hardly had he taken office than a report from Montevideo, across the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, indicated that the toughest defense problem between the U.S. and Argentina would be solved...