Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With her waist-length pigtail, goofy clowning and hillbilly charm, Comedienne Burnett seems to have escaped from a cartoonist's drawing board. Whether she is quaffing one goblet of mead too many, chewing the wax grapes in her corsage and spitting out the seeds, or opening her mouth to grapefruit size to bellow that she's Shy, Actress Burnett makes her musical comedy debut a choicely comic event...
Artificial-Respiration Tube. An S-shaped plastic tube for mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration was put on sale by Johnson & Johnson. Designed to revive unconscious victims of near drowning, electric shock or similar accidents, the mouth-to-mouth-tube method of artificial respiration has been adopted by the U.S. Army. Price...
...dusty mummies of eight of his ancestors, Willie Samuriwo kept his solitary vigil two long nights to prove-by escaping animal attack-his right to be King. Outside, whispering, loinclothed sentries sent back word to waiting villagers that the fresh spoor of a lion could be seen at the mouth of the cave, and a lioness had been seen prowling in the vicinity during the night, but neither had molested Willie...
...four months to two years) in Arizona's Phoenix area alone. Reason for the concentration there is the low humidity: dry air increases the plastic's tendency to develop a charge of static electricity and adhere to anything around. After the bag covers a child's mouth and nose, he soon becomes too faint to coordinate his actions and pull away the sticky folds. Vomiting usually follows. Cause of death is believed to be inhalation of vomited matter, which blocks the air passages...
...waking are the tidal rhythms of a child's life. Awake, Serioja tags after older boys to the forest for a piratical, burnt-finger feast of baked potatoes and onions. Asleep, he is sprawled in his bed with an impish mop of blond hair and slightly open mouth ("He's saving up strength to go on living...