Lack of proper nourishment had obviously given me a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease.

The turmoil that has engulfed the team is, to a great extent, the result of an epidemic of foot-in-mouth disease.

But then the foot-in-mouth disease struck.

I 'can keep myself uselessly occupied with selfflagellation for an entire night when my latest attack of foot-in-mouth disease is severe.

Because early in the campaign Mr. Quayle suffered from a seemingly incurable case of political foot-in-mouth disease.

Clinton, accustomed to bouts of foot-in-mouth disease ("but I didn't inhale"), has become adept at the fast fix.

Foot-in-mouth disease, Jennifer.

Perhaps he suffers from foot-in-mouth disease (translation: brutal honesty), or maybe he aims to sell more copies of his book by making provocative statements.

Unlike Mr. Parker's case of "foot-in-mouth disease," that is the scientific value of Gaia.

"Foot-in-Mouth Disease"

But she'd known me long enough; she must know I had foot-in-mouth disease... I had seen Louise before and known that she was beautiful.

One is an artist capable of directing exceptional films, the other a public personality who suffers from flare-ups of foot-in-mouth disease and a fondness for conspiracy theories.

Foot-in-mouth disease has become so rampant in the Bush Administration that Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to think of ways to help his friend shore up the center in Washington.

For years Mr. Stern has suffered from recurring foot-in-mouth disease, as when he introduced his dog to a group of Chinese-American children in April by saying they could "pet him - but don't eat him."

The Governor was angry, and his rejoinder did nothing to allay his reputation for foot-in-mouth disease: "We need to remember in many countries that would be called a rich life," he was reported as saying in newspaper accounts.

Bella's personality brings life to the room," She hoped they shared little characteristics, "I hope I'm not too much like Bella, she has a heart of gold though," but admitted to several, "We both suffer foot-in-mouth disease.

High on her list of fools who goaded her beyond endurance was Vice-President Dan Quayle, whose own particular brand of foot-in-mouth disease was of a different strain from Strader's but, if anything, more debilitating.

LAST week, City Councilwoman Annette M. Robinson of Brooklyn suffered a nasty bout of foot-in-mouth disease, saying that police officers looked like men who, had they been out of uniform, would have taken part in last month's sexual assaults in Central Park.

In the early 50's, when Eisenhower Defense Secretary "Engine Charlie" Wilson showed a lack of sympathy for the unemployed by saying he preferred bird dogs to kennel dogs, he admitted that some of his cabinet colleagues "seem to think I have foot-in-mouth disease."