Word: clench
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cities, particularly Port-au-Prince with its 250,000 inhabitants, are the most sordid parts of Haiti. In the sprawling market places, you have to breathe through your mouth to avoid the smell and clench your teeth so the flies can't get in. Beggars are everywhere and swarm around you. Children follow you holding out their hands for money. A cripple throws himself in your path, clinging shakily to his crutch, and without saying a word expresses the horror of human degradation...
Many of the most reputable physicians have given up. Before the ban, the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Arthur L. Scherbel was getting significant and hopeful responses in scleroderma, or "hidebound disease," a disorder of collagen throughout the body that makes it difficult for the victim to clench his hands, and in many cases causes hideously painful fingertip ulcers. Dr. Scherbel has not used DMSO since the ban, except for patients who still have a supply. "We have tentative permission to use DMSO," he says, "but how do you get a drug company to release it?" Fearful of FDA reprisals...
...Senators and all 435 Representatives are up for re-election Nov. 8. Some from nearby states shuttled almost daily between home-state campaigning and Capitol Hill; others with particularly tough races had not turned up in Washington for weeks; some lived too far away to do anything but clench their teeth and stay with the session day after day. Said Hawaii's Representative Patsy Mink: "That fenced-in feeling makes all of us who want to come back plenty nervous...
...Philly Dog, now bounding in from Philadelphia, is happy-go-lucky. It can be recognized, says Hy Lit, by its characteristic crouch, "sort of a break in the knees, like a guy on first base waiting to steal second." Dancers are also expected to clench their hands like paws and grapple with an invisible necktie, then place their hands behind the back in the "duck" position (palms outward). The dance, says one Philadelphia record promoter, evolved out of a "vulgar and risque" tail-wagging Kentucky dance called the Dog, which was banned in several cities. Says he: "The kids...
...peasant soul to stand upright and ask for her hand from her senator father, and she married someone else. Gareth's present, equally hard to stomach, is his own storekeeper father, for whom he works rather like an indentured servant. "Old Screwballs," as Gareth refers to him, is clench-lipped, word-shy, and sclerotically set in his ways. An evening with him is an unaltering ritual of despair: one cup of tea (never two), a game of checkers with the canon, a grunt of shoptalk. Gareth's father puts on his glasses to see the paper, never...