Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coastal jungle of Vera Cruz state, bulldozers chewed their way last week through rain forests and matted vines. They were clearing a path across the waist of Mexico for an 800-mile-long fence. Its purpose: to check the northward spread of aftosa (foot-&-mouth disease), which had already infected about one-sixth of Mexico's 13 million head of cattle and brought nightmares to Texas ranchers...
Gosden and Correll plan to be heard but not seen on the telescreen because 1) they do not look like Amos 'n' Andy, and 2) they speak so many roles. Competent Negro actors will silently mouth the masters' words. They planned to have the show ready some time this year...
...best when characterizing the standard of American morality, seen in dirty side show of an amusement park. "A group of people filed out of the concession--...a man with a woman clinging to his arm and giggling covertly, and an old man grinning with an empty mouth, bubbles of saliva at the corner of his lips." But aside from the sheer lustiness of his description, Lewis is tremendously skillful in combining two parallel plots, one in the past and one in the present, without succumbing to the banality that is usually found in the use of flashbacks...
Quite a birthday for a manifesto. Quite a ripple for an unsociable old refugee who had sat, day after day, year after year, under the high glass dome of the British Museum's reading room, his clothes untidy, a sarcastic line edging his mouth...
...words left his mouth, the police call box rang. The sergeant took the phone, and policemen nutraculousy began to appear from doorways all the way down Mt. Auburn Street. A squad of six collected and tramped off to quell a piot in a local all-night hamburg emporium...