Word: mouthsful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because Premier van Acker's Socialist-Communist-Liberal coalition had kept the nation's nose close to the grindstone, Brussels shop windows bulged with food, clothing, luxuries. The size and variety of Belgian rations made French mouths water.
At this point they were interrupted by one of those female officials whom Millar always called "Intelligent Gentlewomen." Their voices "reeked of the Tightness of life, of tea in the nursery and snowmen with pipes in their mouths and Struwelpeter and Jemima Puddleduck. . . ." "It is rather a dreadful name," she...
As a result of showing off to the Littles' cat, Stuart was rolled up in a window shade. The Littles thought he had disappeared down a mousehole (it was an obsession Mrs. Little had). So they got down on all fours "and put their mouths as close as possible...
The machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph.
Q. Do they feel moral guilt for their aggression? A. In general, no. How the minority of unreconstructed militarists justify Japanese aggression to themselves can only be guessed - they are damn care ful right now to keep their mouths shut. At the opposite extreme the ardent peace advocates (like Kagawa...