Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unchastened, Bevan put a restless foot back in his nimble mouth. Opening a maternity hospital at Holyhead, he said that men of Celtic fire were needed to bring about great reforms like the new health service. That was why, he explained, Welshmen were put in charge instead of "the bovine and phlegmatic Anglo-Saxons." How Bevan's Labor associates, including Anglo-Saxons Attlee, Morrison and Bevin, liked that one was not revealed. Unphlegmatic Anglo-Saxon Winston Churchill, however, put his head down and charged. Said he: "We speak of the Minister of Health-but ought we not rather...
...airplane crash on the cloud-draped slopes of windy Orizaba, eight Mexicans and eight U.S. citizens had died together. They had also died in the same cause. All were workers of the U.S.-Mexican commission fighting aftosa (foot & mouth disease...
...joint state funeral, small, earnest U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston talked long and seriously with General Harry H. Johnson, new chief of the U.S. section of the anti-aftosa commission-out of the corner of his mouth. Afterwards Thurston announced that he had ordered a full investigation. Later he handed to Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet a note deploring the comments of Mexican newspapers...
...Under Austria," John Benes once said, "we had to keep our mouths shut." Returning to the U.S. last week from a visit home, he told a little about the new Czechoslovakia, then shut his mouth. John Benes had left his brother Eduard "ill and under precarious circumstances," he said. "For 19 months I was constantly watched. Two weeks ago my brother told me two soldiers were watching me and it was time to go home. I cannot tell you more. I am afraid to talk...
Many otherwise unrelated diseases produce spasms, tremor or stiffness of muscles: infantile paralysis, cerebral palsy, chronic rheumatism, arthritis, Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans), apoplexy, Pott's disease (tuberculosis of the spine), hardening of the arteries. The doctors tried the drug, given by mouth, on 59 patients; all but one showed improvement-sometimes in five minutes. Drs. Berger and Schwartz consider their work still in the experimental stage...