Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evidence in Bones. As long ago as 1916, Dentist Fredrick S. McKay of Colorado Springs noted that many of his patients had curiously mottled teeth, but that they had developed few or no cavities. He later suggested the reason: the city's water contained more than two parts per million of fluorine salts. It was a logical if slow progression from that to the carefully controlled studies of the 1940s and the continuing campaign since then...
...sold his 376-acre Big Beaver Ranch to the Muslims for $115,000 last May. He claims that he did not know he was dealing with the Muslims at the time. But there was little doubt of Muslim involvement in July, when Wyatt and a local dentist, Dr. Robert McClung, sold the Muslims an additional 541-acre parcel for a quick $20,000 profit. McClung, similarly, was an unlikely ally of the black man; he is past president of the local John Birch Society. Their neighbors were particularly enraged, since the pair had apparently been motivated solely by profit...
...back from the front. Ring Lardner Jr.'s overlapping Catch-22-caliber scenes devour congruity as war devours youth. In the abbatoir of the operating room a surgeon saws off a leg while he begs a nurse to scratch his nose. The unit's greatest nurse chaser, Dentist Painless Waldowski, decides that Don Juanism is a cover-up for homosexuality. Better never than latent, he decides after a nontumescent night, and instantly opts for the Right Thing: suicide...