Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neville Marriner takes a symphonic baton between his teeth...
...from ten bob for a threepenny Cadbury's bar. He became fluent in that twisting tongue in order to get his money's worth out of American movies, for which the Spanish subtitle might read "Be gone!" while the sound track said, "I'll kick your teeth past your tonsils." Luis earns the Nazis' trust and the Iron Cross with his prescient reports on British planning. In time, Eldorado (Luis' code name) acquires an imaginary network of agents, all handsomely remunerated by German intelligence, which pours their pay into Cabrillo's Lisbon bank account...
ERRANT IN their path, blinded by the realization that Jimmy Carter is God's personal representative on earth, the authors indulge in baths of high-school psychology. From his childhood in Georgia, little Jimmy carries the entire burden of Southern history to Annapolis, where he grits his teeth for three years. Laboring under the shadow of his father, Carter develops the win-or-die attitude of the killer politician. Crushed by his failure to win the governor's seat the first time around, Carter goes off to find himself, "a star pupil in the self-improvement school...
Communism can implement its "ideals" only by destroying the core and foundation of a nation's life. He who understands this will not for a minute believe that Chinese Communism is more peace-loving than the Soviet variety (it is simply that its teeth have not yet grown), or that Marshal Tito's brand is kindly by nature. The latter was also leavened with blood, and it too consolidated its power by mass killings, but the weak-hearted West preferred not to take any notice in 1943-45. He who understands the nature of Communism will...
...careful study of more than two dozen skeletal remnants recently dug up by Simons' team. These fossils helped the scientists re-create not only the physical structure of the animal, its movements and diet but its social behavior as well. Of special importance were the primate's teeth. "The males had large, fanglike canine teeth," explains Duke Anatomist