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Word: mouths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were drawn in an unconvincing smile. A translator read his speech for him; it attacked both U.S. warmongers and Igor Stravinsky, and praised the "unheard-of scope and level of development reached by musical culture in the U.S.S.R." Throughout the reading, the convulsive working of the composer's mouth and cheek betrayed an almost uncontrollable agitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Music Was His Final Refuge | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Carbon monoxide levels in Harvard Square, he explains, are already "worse than anywhere else in the state--including the mouth of the Callahan Tunnel." Johnson says that additionl development, especially on the scale of the Carpenter proposal, will make a bad situation worse...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Board Approves Parcel 1B Project; Citizens Fear Traffic, Pollution Rise | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

Slowly and carefully Garance lowered her camera toward him. Rand reached up, cupped her buttocks in his palms and guided her lens down gently to a close-up of his mouth...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...been kidnaped for a long time. "Only five more days," exulted the Panamanian daily El Matutino, awaiting the ceremonies that marked the change in sovereignty. To ensure a large crowd at the festivities, the government declared a national holiday; Panamanians were urged by radio, proclamation and word of mouth to enter the zone and attend a rally at the field of Albrook Air Force Station. There were a handful of anti-American outbursts; shortly after midnight on the day of the turnover, a small band of poor Panamanians tore up an American flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: No More Tomorrows | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...president, meanwhile, has been speaking out of both ends of his mouth. At first, when it looked like Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) might show strongly, Carter was quiet. Then, when his advisors told him he would win the caucus the president declared the caucus a testing ground. At this week's press conference, Carter said...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: More Fun in the Sun | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

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