Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realizing that getting the word from the horse's mouth is fairly impossible these days, that the financial situation could be better, and that the race for knowledge might be easier were it the "breakfast table education" of old, the former soldiers, sailors, and marines--without running into any Pollyannaisms consider themselves pretty fortunate. They're making the best of the present and are hopeful for the future. But dropping the past has been a little difficult, a stoutish ex-Wac confided. "I guess I've grown out of this khaki girdle...
...Nurnberg last week an official announcement explained-partly-how Hermann Goring had managed to cheat the gallows with a phial of potassium cyanide crushed in his mouth two hours before execution time. He had had the poison, the report said, on his person when captured, and had managed to keep it hidden during the whole 17 months of his captivity...
...suing Adamic and the publisher for libel. He also demanded that the book be taken off the stands. Adamic, in describing fellow diner Churchill, had written of his "stubborn cranium," had called him "simultaneously honest and dishonest," "a very great leader and . . . also evil," and noted "the eyes and mouth which were shrewd, ruthless, unscrupulous," but just what Churchill considered libelous was not made public. The amount of damages was left up to the jury...
...earlier years photographers had been uniformly kind and thoughtful, never snapping him in an awkward position. . . . Toward the last, however, they shot him from every angle and seemed to prefer the pictures that caught him with his mouth open or stooped forward...
...side missed at least two shots that appeared to be headed for sure goals while in the third period Tech failed to score on a penalty kick which the referee awarded when one of the Varsity defensemen touched the ball in a scrimmage in front of the Harvard goal-mouth...