Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold his country down the river, had done nothing but bring ruin several years closer. Then people in Manila began thinking about Mr. Quezon's brain, and some began to believe that Quezon's understanding with the New Deal might contain a bark worse than its bite. Stock prices recovered...
...good fortune to bet a pound note on the winner. Feature of the race, which only seven of the 33 starters contrived to finish, was the outrageous behavior of a horse named Drim. Drim unseated his rider, ran on without him, caught up with the leaders, tried persistently to bite them until the race was over when he was caught irately pursuing Royal Mail to the unsaddling enclosure...
...trifle offset. This compels the lower jaw to move straight up and down against the upper jaw, instead of in the natural scissors movement. The extra height of the middle teeth prevents Dr. Sears's patients from shutting their jaws completely. Only way to do that and to bite into food is to thrust out the lower jaw so that the high teeth clear each other. This enables one to nibble. While this process goes on (practice soon removes the strain), the second molars keep the artificial dentures from springing out of the mouth...
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