Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also kill two birds with one stone: it would build the dams out of the gob pile that just lay smoldering beside the mine--unhealthy situation that. You couldn't really call it a dam--no engineering, no overflow, no drains, just back some trucks up to the hollow mouth, and dump this waste in--there was your...
...ever do it? In your cover picture of the candidates you have a pose of Reagan looking sincere, Ford looking intelligent and Carter with his mouth shut...
...Shannon, the short, freckled bosun, cups his hands around his mouth and bellows, 'All hands on deck! Sail stations!' His words echo across the deserted, fog-wet decks of the Eagle, and men come scrambling up ladders and out of doorways. Dozens pull themselves up into the rigging, swarming 150 ft. above the deck to loosen the tightly furled sails. 'Loose the foreroyal!' cries Shannon. 'Loose the main royal! Man the fore t'gallants'l sheets and halyard there! Look alive, deck!' The sails begin to drop like curtains at a play...
...Lords. Edmund Burke made the same point with more sympathy for the Colonists: "The scarcity you have felt would have been a desolating famine if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent...
...painting likenesses for pleasantly prosperous people in areas outside our few cities. Like peddlers, they come to the door and inquire whether the master or mistress wants a portrait painted. Their range is the range of their feet (or perhaps their horse), and their reputation passes by word of mouth in the town squares or local taverns. Their knowledge of Europe is gathered, if at all, from engravings seen here or there in a bookseller's shop. Since there are no art academies or public exhibitions, they are little known in the cities; nor do they sign their names...