Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name, he said, was "Juke." He was a little 125-lb. fellow. His eyes were sunk back in his ash-colored face; there was grime under his eyes and pasted into the wrinkles around his mouth and on his forehead. He wore a shirt that was once white; now it was black and yellow and there was spaghetti sauce over the left breast. His breath had the smell of vomit and cheap booze. Juke was unmistakably one of West Madison Street's citizens...
...Salazar likes either the salute or the slogan. Unlike all other modern dictators, he hates parades, pomp or cheers. When he rides to ceremonies with President Carmona, the old soldier preens and beams; Salazar slinks back in the car, a scowl on his handsome face with the Savonarola-hard mouth. Asked why he refused to respond to cheers, Salazar gave a characteristic answer: "I could not flatter the people without being a traitor to my own conscience. Our regime is popular but it is not a government of the masses, being neither influenced nor directed by them. These good people...
...Belem, mouth of the Amazon, the trekkers were treated to pep talks on the romance of the jungle, shown how to cut the bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...
...Wallis, J. Arthur Rank, RKO. After ten years of cautious experimenting and testing, A.R.I, is equipped with everything from Gallup interviewers to electrical gadgets that measure audience boredom. Its trade lingo glitters with professionalisms: A.P. (Audience Penetration), Want-to-See, Don't-Want-to-See, Word-of-Mouth...
Wrote O'Donnell: "The request . . . has been conveyed to each [justice] by word of mouth. . . . Frankfurter got the bad news directly across the White House desk from Truman." The denials came fast and hard. Said White House Press Secretary Charles Ross: "The most cockeyed thing I ever heard of." O'Donnell's story, he said, was "false in every particular. . . . Truman has not seen or talked to Frankfurter since he became President. . . . Frankfurter has never been in the White House since Truman became President...