Word: dentistly
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...anyone knows who ever sat back waiting for the worst, a dentist's chair is not the place where a patient feels at his most masterful. "Whatever you say, Doc," is a customary attitude. But it also can be an invitation to painful larceny, both petit and grand, or so says a dentist named Melvin Denholtz...
...come the "bill-paying machine" everyone expected him to be, Henry Jackson first tries to bully and then to cajole Hannah into the operating room. He argues sensibly that she is chasing after a romantic ideal, unattainable in life and certainly in death. "I'm a good dentist," he tells her. "And I might have been a good artist instead, if I'd had a chance to try. But I don't want the chance...
...after he was beaten in a ten-mile race by an eight-year-old girl. Says Witteman of his first experience in the Boston Marathon six weeks ago: "After 15 miles I really wanted to quit. Then I felt a hand on my back, and a 75-year-old dentist came up behind me and said, 'You have to keep running...
...other Pennsylvania political figures are awaiting trial. State Senator Francis Lynch and former State Representative Stephen Wojdak have been charged with extorting $15,000 from a dentist to obtain his son's admission to the Temple University School of Dentistry. The U.S. investigation is continuing, and the pressure has shifted from the dean's office to the statehouse...
...dentist, he grew up hungering for more action and fame than his home town of Robinson, Ill., could possibly offer. So right out of high school, in 1939, a feisty welterweight by then, he signed up with the regular Army. As promised, adventure and travel were his -Honolulu, Schofield Barracks, amateur boxing, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Purple Heart, Bronze Star. But advancement seemed beyond James Jones -twice he made noncom and got busted back to private. After five boisterous years and a war, he returned to civilian life. But he packed the Army with him and marched its brawling, grumbling, whoring...