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Word: eyetooth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin, winding up talks in Washington this week, was leaving behind a personal memento: his lower eyetooth, yanked a fortnight ago. Well-worn, silver-filled, double-rooted, but slightly smaller than the average, the Bevin tooth will be enshrined at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, along with the bridgework-of Japan's General Tomoyulci (the "Tiger of Malaya") Yamashlta, hanged for war crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Old Gang | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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