Word: mouthsful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a difficult thing for U.S. correspondents to write about, but in intermittent dispatches they were sending back a disturbing story. The behavior of U.S. soldiers abroad, particularly in the liberated countries of Europe, has left a bad taste in the mouths of all concerned. Relations between the G.I.s...
Instead, the audience of three or four hundred sat with mouths agape, listening. Mostly the audience was in its thirties: they didn't swoon and scream, like bobby-soxers; they talked about the art of it. Many had the conspiratorial smugness of insiders.
They were unusual children: their arms reached to their ankles, their heads were in the shape of pears. Their savage mouths gave even the good Monsignor pause. In their hands, as weapons, they carried sharp, long thorns of the támara tree. They spoke no recognizable language. But they...
During the early, tense days of World War II, when the U.S. people had little to hearten them, they eagerly grasped at two legends: 1) Captain Colin Kelly had sunk the Jap battleship Haruna by plunging his Flying Fortress "almost into the mouths of flaming Japanese guns"; 2) Major James...
But last week there was one piece in the paper which made Boss Crump's bushy eyebrows rise. It was a letter to the editor of the Press-Scimitar, written by Wisconsin-born Mrs. Lee Richardson, wife of a railroad worker, mother of four sons, a Memphian for eight...