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Word: mouths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saigon's Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery are full of case histories of childhood gone awry. A 13-year-old named True was running in the fields outside Nha Trang when he stumbled upon a fountain pen. Shouting to his friends, he placed the pen in his mouth and bit into it; it turned out to be a Chinese-made plastique bomb that destroyed half his face. Similarly, a 15-year-old named An was raiding a garbage heap at the U.S. airbase at Tuy Hoa when he set off a mine that blew off both his legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Indochina: A Generation of Refugees | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

Mike Graff and a Northeastern player exchanged blows during the semifinal game. Graff said that the Huskie player hit him in the mouth and split his lip. Graff responded in kind, hitting his opponent...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Poloists Win New England Cup; Defeat MIT and Northeastern | 5/4/1971 | See Source »

...Boston Marathon. But, as Harper & Row's pro motion manager must certainly agree, it wasn't a total loss-the 26 miles, 385 yards seemed to be lined with Love Story lovers. Said No. 489 afterward: "The muscles that hurt the most are in the mouth, from smiling back at the people." For Segal the marathon also disproved those who claimed success had made him soft. "They say Segal is off sipping champagne from girls' slippers." he boasted. "You can tell them I sip Gatorade from girls' track shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 3, 1971 | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...artist is in the audience," said Herman, with apparently some ironic intent, "will he please raise his hand so that we may applaud him?" From poolside, his feet still dangling in the water, the maestro put his hand to his mouth and uttered a piercing Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: War Whoop for Freedom | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...defendants contacted yesterday planned different actions at their hearings. Martin Goodman '71 said, "I kept my mouth shut all through that meeting and I'm going to find witnesses to prove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRR Notifies 24 Students Charged With Disruption | 4/30/1971 | See Source »

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