Word: mouthsful
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USAGE: "California Schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell said that last week teachers reminded students that if they have to sneeze, to put their mouths into the crook of one of their elbows. 'The students started calling that the Dracula Sneeze, and we picked up on that,' O'Connell said." --Reuters...
The 17 bodies were found beneath a construction site in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Ur, just at the edge of Sadr City. The victims were blindfolded with tape across their mouths and may have been buried alive, according to Iraqi authorities who uncovered the grave in November. The corpses...
Rosenthal stressed last night that the best way to defend against transmission of swine flu is by practicing simple hygiene. In an e-mail sent to the Harvard community earlier this week, Rosenthal and Hyman urged students to wash their hands with soap and water, and to cover their mouths...
With hordes of undergrads returning from spring-break trips across the border, campus health staffers are planning for the worst. By canceling summer programs in Mexico and stockpiling supplies, they're trying to stop outbreaks before they start - and at the same time attempting to reassure jittery students. At Columbia...
That sentiment seems to be taking hold in many parts of Latin America, where thousands of children are growing up behind bars alongside their incarcerated mothers and fathers. That might sound like Dickensian tragedy; but in Bolivia it's a legal - and fiercely defended - practice. "We've seen that this...