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Word: molar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into conspicuous consumption, you can always opt for edible presents. N-M has what they call a "Sweet Tooth"--one pound of solid chocolate shaped like a molar, roots and all, costs...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All I Want for Christmas......Is A Blimp or Two | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Your foot is firmly entrenched where a molar should...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: New Wave's Old Wrinkle | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...Marvin Molar, who walks on his hands and can balance on a finger; Herman Mack, who eats an entire car; Joe Lon Mackey, a homicidal sadist. This gallery of grotesques could only have been invented by Harry Crews, a Southern gothic novelist who often makes William Faulkner look pastoral by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Like It Was | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...show, The Act does not deserve it. The book is dental floss inserted with tedious hygienic monotony so as to clear a space for the next molar crunch of song and dance. It is the tale of Michelle Craig (Minnelli) who became a film star slavishly dependent on her producer-husband, Dan Connors (Barry Nelson), lost him and flopped. She is now trying to re gain her career and born-again self-reliance with a nightclub act in Las Vegas - which is what The Act is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: X Factor | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Jimmy Buffett's last two albums have been a little more glossy than crustacean. Forebodings of trespassed territory emerge from the back cover of "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time"--it's 1974, right? and Jaws is more than an aching molar in the back of Peter Benchley's mouth, right? and a great white shark is slithering through clear green water on the back cover, about to swallow the credits and titles...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Bashed and Buffetted | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

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