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Word: mouth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Effete is what Spiro puts in his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice Presidency: Agnew Unleashed | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...tonight's match between Boston Shorty and Ronnie Allen will be crucial. The victor should be able to dominate the rest of the one-pocket field. Sentiment runs heavily in favor of Boston's five-foot, two-inch pool wizard, but the hard money makes the unpopular California motor mouth a 7-5 favorite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hustlers Come to Johnson City | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...make their heroic, existential, death-defying gestures almost futile. Two of them are killed when their truck is blown to pieces. The explosion takes place a long way from the other truck, but the wind it produces is so great that it whisks away a cigarette from the mouth of one of the drivers...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: The MoviegoerThe Wages of Fear | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...have, but recently Vincent Canby decided to spend a few inches on him. Now I'm still so dumb about the cinema that I don't know whether I should say "movie" or "film" or "picture." but I know when I've caught Canby with his foot in his mouth. Meyer would be all right, Canby said, if only he could get his mind off sex. Hah. What makes Meyer so great is that he can think of nothing else...

Author: By Jim Fallows, | Title: Animals The Vixen | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

...dollars" or "O.K., Salem" are favorite "cowboy" slurs, implying that the woman has sold herself for money or cigarettes. The Vietnamese press abounds with tearful stories of happily married Vietnamese women who left their husbands for the lure of the dollar and the company of Americans. By word of mouth, other, more bizarre tales make the rounds. Some uneducated Vietnamese men actually believe that U.S. troops are carriers of the "shrinking bird" disease, which is said to cause the slow shriveling of the male genitals; the Americans, so the story goes, are immune because of pills and inoculations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOUTH VIET NAM: RISING RESENTMENT OF THE U.S. | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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