Word: bridgework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to learn what goes on inside the mouth when people chew, drink or swallow, Dr. Samuel Adams II, 28, and his associates at Rochester, N.Y.'s Eastman Dental Dispensary, have been bugging the bridgework of volunteers with tiny radio transmitters fitted into dummy teeth. Crammed inside each electronic tooth are a transistor, an induction coil, two capacitors, a resistor and a hearing-aid battery- all miniaturized items developed by the Air Force. Once the radio denture is in place, the subject enters a Faraday cage, a metal-mesh enclosure that blocks out most outside electrical disturbances...
...chewing programs of 24 volunteers have been tuned in, and Dr. Adams hopes that his records will eventually aid his colleagues in telling if a bite is good or poor in real dentures. What reward do the volunteers get for their services? A piece of nonbroadcasting bridgework to replace their own missing molars...
...blue, with binoculars around his neck. Menelaus wore pince-nez, and they all used the spittoon and the likker jug. The Trojan War had turned into the U.S. Civil War, and before the play was over, muskets banged, cannon boomed, and that old states-righter, Hector, lost his bridgework to six Greco-Yankee bayonets...