Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week. "The revolution aries have turned against the most sacred concepts of the law," he cried. "This tyrannic act, banishing me from public life, is staining and marring a revolution undertaken to save us from Communism. The seeds of injustice, of arbitrary action, of ill will, will take root . . . The blow they want to strike against me will strike instead at our democratic life...
Trapped. It was an ugly, bloody little war at that. One day last week, seeking to root the Red Wolves out of their mountain redoubts, 120 British paratroopers attacked the mud-walled town of El Naqiil at dawn with fixed bayonets. The rebels scampered up the slopes, dug in, and with deadly sniper fire pinned the paratroopers to the ground in shimmering heat. Twelve hours later, at dusk, the British finally broke out of the trap and routed the rebels, killing twelve. Two Britons died...
...Crown & Root. A tooth is not a sim ple cutting or grinding tool, but a complex piece of living matter. The part that shows, which dentists call the crown, is made of bonelike dentine wrapped in an enamel shell. The part that is hidden, which dentists call the root, consists of bonelike materials surrounding the root canal, which is filled with soft tissue, blood vessels and the tooth's nerve...
Fact is, concluded Cornell University's Dr. Stanley J. Behrman, teeth are far from immune to the processes of graft rejection. Even their enamel, he said, may touch off an immune reaction. The root is slowly whittled away by scavenger cells in the bloodstream of the tooth's new owner, and is replaced with soft tissue or new bone, which is why the crown eventually falls...
...first molars (as one in three does) because of decay. Then, if the patient has a "wisdom tooth" that has not yet broken through, or is threatening to become impacted, the dentist removes it and uses it to replace the lost molar. This young, "budding" tooth will take root and grow just like any other tooth, except that it will never develop a nerve connection. Since all the tissues are the patient's own, there is no problem of graft rejection. And the problems of surgical technique have been pretty well solved. Decay in the transplant can be treated...