Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skin of my teeth," Papailias said...
...tools. Upstairs, in a room decorated with children's posters of properly placed tongues, Brooks sits in front of a mirror. He puts a button-size plastic ring on the tip of his tongue, draws it into his mouth, and presses it up against the ridge behind the front teeth. It is an exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue carry but also from unwanted "nasal emissions" (or twang), "restricted mandibles" ("a big phrase for talking with your mouth closed") and "oral...
Forward: Barbara Death, Cornell. If yousaw her jersey for the first time, you might say,"Naah, it can't be." Combine her with Savage andyou get a great name for a tag team. But beforeyou get the wrong idea, "Death" rhymes with"teeth." And she can take a bite out of opponents...
...politicians I saw on TV weren't women. They were large blustery men with red faces or they were tall charismatic men with white teeth and big smiles--but they were never women. After I realized this I began to doubt whether I wanted to be a politician and, more importantly, whether I could accomplish what I set out to do. I was scared that my gender could effect my success...
...tiny generation of politically aware students which first bit its activist teeth into the Cuban missile crisis and the bloody civil rights struggles in Mississippi and Birmingham became the sometime leaders and spokesmen of the vast and unruly coalition that marched on Washington, disrupted the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and flocked to Yasgar's farm and Haight-Ashbury...