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...catch-all term for any fish fillet that becomes white when cooked. It usually refers to cod or haddock, but on good fishing days can denote halibut and other flakier varieties. Lemon juice that has been dried (dehydrated), and then moistened again is said to have been reconstituted. Dental floss is usually made of fine strings of nylon. If waxed, the strings tend to fray less often during use. Unwaxed pieces, however, are thinner and can fit better in small cracks. And rack and pinyon steering is the term for a geared steering mechanism first found in European cars...
Schnorr also did a complete dental job on Padito put the shine back into his teeth, andreattached his head, which had become loosened...
...teeth and can eventually lead to gum disease. Unlike the head of an ordinary electric model, the one on Interplak does not move; instead, its ten tiny tufts rotate, each making 1 1/2 turns, then reversing direction. "All the power is in the bristles," says John Trenary, president of Dental Research Corp., the Georgia-based firm that makes the device. Company-sponsored studies show that the machine removes about 98% of plaque, twice as much as hand brushing accomplishes. Introduced last November and initially available only through dentists or directly from the manufacturer, Interplak is now reaching stores across...
...because of the author's severity or the grumblings of his first reader, first editor and first typist (all of them me) -- no! Because of another's will and another's hand. Sections kept vanishing. Once from the apartment in Moscow; once stolen along with his bag at the dental clinic in Gorky; once from our parked car, which had been broken into, with Andrei knocked out by some drug. Each time he rewrote his book. Each time there was something new -- sometimes better written, sometimes not, sometimes on a different subject...
...after his bag was stolen at the dental clinic, Andrei met me at the train station. He looked haggard, as if he were suffering from insomnia or prolonged illness. His lips were trembling and his voice broke: "Lusia, they stole it." He spoke with acute pain...