Word: clenchingly
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Khrushchev's face turned darker; he began to shake his head, clench his fists, pound the table, as the audience looked on in amazement. "But just now," he said, "I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked: 'Why not? What is it? Do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know.' And just listen, just listen to what I was told, to what reason I was told. We, which means the American authorities, cannot guarantee your security if you go there...
...businessman's strenuous pace, Dr. James N. Lynch, secretary of the Chicago Dental Society, last week added "executive mouth." Plenty of dental defects, said Dr. Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth loosen and may fall...
...pronunciation: Tooley). Around it is nothing but a featureless white plain, and Fist Clench itself looks like almost nothing. Only low chimney tops show above the snow...
...Fist Clench was "built" by digging trenches with a Peters plow-a 13-ton, Swiss-built monster that chews up ice and snow and blows it over its shoulder. Twenty-four insulated Jamesway Huts. 20 ft. wide and 40 ft. long, were set up in the trenches. Then the trenches were roofed with timber trusses and covered deep with snow. The 60 scientists and military men who spend the winter at Fist Clench will have a!1 reasonable comforts, and they will hardly feel it when the 100-m.p.h. gales start blowing overhead...
...with snow. After the snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo. One hundred miles of under-ice highway are now under construction between Thule and Fist Clench, and no blizzard that blows will stop the trucks that...