Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purses. There are also some linguistic notes: "Rattling Lay" was stealing from coaches, "Rufflers" were strong-arm men, "Ripping Coves" broke into houses by ripping up roofs, and "palliards, tatterdemalions and clapperdogeons" were wanderers. At his trial Wild claimed that an unsuccessful mercury cure for syphilis had caused his mouth to water so copiously that he could not address the court without spitting. The judge refused a postponement. The hangman who hanged Wild had been a guest at his wedding. ∙John Skow
...firewood. The fervor of resistance seemed to relax, revealing a band of people who were young, tired and cold. A few tried a couple of verses of Viet Nam Rag, then retreated into subdued silence; hardly anyone knew the words. Then someone put a harmonica to his mouth, and soon they were singing, like so many Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls...
...dean of the class. Scarred and bruised, but jumping and bubbling, the glands still exuding their special juices. It is odd how good he looks up close, but how old he seems from a distance. There in front of the desk he bathes you in warmth and enthusiasm. The mouth turns down naturally, and that, along with his pointed jaw, could make him seem mean, but he never lets it happen. Humphrey laughs uproariously and shows his visitors a little plaque that says TO HELL WITH DO-GOODERS. He savors a man of light heart and the joy of children...
...Groin. The energy is necessary, Bean was told, for the drastic process of "de-armoring" the seven centers of resistance to the "orgonotic streamings"-eyes, mouth, neck, chest, diaphragm, abdomen, pelvis. De-armoring begins with strenuous eye exercises accompanied by deep, regular breathing. After several hours of ocular acrobatics, Bean says, he suddenly recalled a dog he had loved and lost as a boy. For the first time since losing the dog, he wept. The exercises, he suggests, cracked the mental armor he had clamped on his eyes and taught him to cry again...
...Nixon's personal qualities that bring from Osborne uncompromising language: "The viewed Nixon-the sullen mouth twitching on order into that spurious smile, the quality of cold and unceasing calculation to be seen in his little eyes-aroused in me a sense of ingrained and ineradicable cheapness...