Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vice Premier Darlan's latest statement might have come from the clamorous mouth of Adolf Hitler himself. Lashing at British policy ever since the Versailles Treaty, Admiral Darlan worked heatedly up to World War II in which, he declared, Britain had seized 792,000 tons of French shipping valued at 12,000,000,000 francs...
...defense program still has no central economic authority charged with gearing U.S. production to the armament effort. Hence many a specific question in the agents' minds went unanswered. Already their buying policies have changed from a pre-war hand-to-mouth basis to forward buying for nine months hence or more. Chief danger, in a situation where only a spark might set off an inflationary explosion, was that industry might never be told the answers, would have to buy everything in sight to protect itself...
...mean-we couldn't have gone to a larger University? Have you ever heard of oil wells? Well, we've got them; and you know what that means. Anyway, you should know. It means yachts. . . . The orange juice from our orange groves is in everyone's mouth. . . Which all means that we could have gone to larger universities. But why should...
...Boca ("The Mouth"), a bedraggled, crowded, riverside quarter of corrugated iron shacks, docks, fish markets, is regarded by Porteños (colloquial for citizens of Buenos Aires) as the Montmartre of Buenos Aires. There, for many years, Quinquela Martín has painted La Boca's muscular sailors and barnacled boats, exhibiting his work in a little combination school and museum near his home. When, a few years ago, La Boca jocularly declared itself a republic, it elected First Citizen Quinquela Martín its president...
...come in; sit you down, sit you down" and the show is on. Lavish requests to share his Virginia Rounds are poured out, flavored with an extreme East-end accent and strained through a prodigious black moustache. Twinkling eyes and a quick twitch of the heavily-bushed mouth signal that this is nimble-witted company. Immediately one senses that here is a true scholar, soaked with the disciplinary English tradition. He is modest about his life-history, protesting that the academic life is a series of books and lectures. Endowed with no financial advantages, Nock struggled his way through...