Word: dentalized
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...influenza attack, Kilgore had been ordered by his doctor to go home, but he had insisted on staying around to vote. Sick, drowsy with medicine, Kilgore stared groggily at Nixon. Nixon stared back, waiting for some sign that Kilgore wanted to be recognized. Kilgore, who had been having dental trouble and was being fitted for a new plate, ran his tongue rhythmically over his gums. He said nothing. Nixon said nothing. The Senate sat,.gripped in silent suspense...
...Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens admitted "defects in the Army procedures" that promoted an Army dental officer while his loyalty was seriously in question and gave him an honorable discharge a few days after he pleaded self-incrimination to avoid answering McCarthy's questions about Communist activity. The effect of the discharge was to put the officer beyond the reach of military...
...brilliant caricature. James Hayter is a dear old tub as Pickwick; Nigel Patrick, as Jingle, makes a properly swagger cheapJack; and Comedienne Joyce Grenfell, as Mrs. Leo Hunter, the aristocratic wreck who holds the "literahry fawncy-dress breakfast," positively improves on the book by revealing when she smiles a dental arch of the sort that no doubt inspired the design of London Bridge...
...both the dinghy and the Zulu helmsman and tore them to pieces. Dempster also found that his hard-nosed service bullets were useless: they ricocheted off a croc's bumpy hide. But the worst snag was the crocodile-birds, a species of African plover. The crocodile's "dental service" is provided by his plovers ("a mating pair ... to each crocodile"), who fly fearlessly into his open jaws and pick leeches and scraps of food from between his teeth. At the least hint of danger, they leave his jaws with a shriek and the croc submerges...
...Maurice V. Stack, research fellow in Dental Medicine, has received the Chicago Dental Society's 13th annual essay prize worth $500. Stack's essay was based on studies which he had made showing that the sound portions of teeth with cavities do not differ from healthy teeth. His work also proved that the organic composition of teeth does not depend on a person...