Word: chews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene, he looked as though he might chew up every backdrop in California; with a rich, bellowing bass to match his histrionics, the effect was heroic. After the death scene, the bravos all but blew the house in. Even the critics sounded their A's. The Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "Never before have I heard an audience gasp when an operatic hero fell dead; this is the final measure of the conviction with which Rossi played Boris." Declared Critic Cecil Smith in the News: "The most commanding Boris since Chaliapin...
That was 16 years ago. Ever since, young Robert Linsig of Marlboro, N.Y. has lived by grace of his rubber tube. Like other children, he learned to chew his own food, but instead of being able to swallow, he had to spoon it into the tube. Robert never let it get him down. He grew up healthy and active, went to school, scrapped with the other kids, and learned to play the bell-lyra in the Marlboro Central High School band...
...thing that always seems to go with sound teeth is vigorous chewing and tough food, Dr. Neumann finds. Wherever cutlery and good table manners appear, teeth decay. His prescription for postponing tooth decay: chew hard on tough, sour bread of the kind made by European peasants. Better still, let children chew raw sugar cane...
...kids, report the adults, really get into the news-to sniff, chew, scratch and crumple. Some are careful cover-to-cover "readers," while others digest only a few pages. One tot, we were informed, is not happy with anything but the current issue...
Instead of arguing-as had Marshall, Bradley and Collins-that bombing across the Yalu might bring World War III, Vandenberg was against it, for the moment at least, for his own reason: the job, he said, might chew up the Air Force and leave the U.S. "naked for several years to come" to Russian attack...