Word: pyorrhea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a handsome gold encrusted bombilla (the gourd from which maté is drunk) on behalf of Perón. When he got back to Buenos Aires, Oliva Paz found Perón's mouth in worse shape than ever. The effects of a bad case of pyorrhea were beginning to show. He lanced the gums, then Perón demanded a specialist...
Tylman (peering into Perón's mouth) : "You have one of the worst pyorrhea cases I have ever seen. The treatment you have been receiving is incredibly...
Oliva Paz (translating): "Although you have one of the worst attacks of pyorrhea I have ever seen, your gums have been very well treated...
...jewels stored there by Veteran Torchsinger Sophie ("Last of the Red Hot Mammas") Tucker. Her estimate: $75,000. Ex-Scandals Producer George White, six months in a California work camp after an auto accident in which he killed two people, lost his plea for parole (he said he had pyorrhea and a bum knee), went back to tending sheep. When fire broke out in the radio of her husband's private plane, Cinemadventuress Veronica Lake smothered it with her mink coat, was forced to appear in furs borrowed from a friend. Frank Sinatra was bedded in Acapulco, Mexico, with...
...year course devoted almost entirely to mouth and teeth, students at Harvard School of Dental Medicine will have a seven-year grind. After three and a half years in medical school, they will wind up with one and a half of dentistry, tackling such problems as teeth and diet, pyorrhea, malocclusion (improper biting). At graduation, students will receive both an M.D. and Doctor of Medical Dentistry degree. Before going into research (probably none of them will become family dentists), they will have to spend a year or two interning in hospitals, for practical experience...