Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marketers view Iowans as stubbornly resistant to change; they are unlikely to be the first to try new types of products. "I would take a new tartar- control toothpaste into Des Moines or the Quad Cities because it wouldn't require people to change their behavior by brushing their teeth more," theorizes Watts Wacker, senior vice president of the survey-research firm of Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. "But I wouldn't take a tartar-control mouthwash there, because that requires change in usage patterns." Iowans are even contrariant enough to believe still in the superiority of American automobiles: foreign-car sales...
Other captains, those who are not scorers by nature, lead by working hard. In the off-season, they pump the most iron and run the most miles. They eat the right food. They floss their teeth twice...
...culprits have not yet even been touched. These U.S. authorities charge that the Mexican government, by withholding evidence and refusing to share knowledge of the case, has engaged in a cover- up aimed at protecting officials far more highly placed than any so far indicted. "It's like pulling teeth," says a top DEA official. "We're making progress, but it's slow...
Actually, Barbara Death pronounces her last name to rhyme with teeth. Her heads-up play on a delayed penalty spoiled Harvard goalie Jennifer White's shutout. And that was something to be proud...
...raped by adolescents of both sexes. But Hilary, with eyes like green ice or emerald fire, is a survivor who goes on to make it as a TV executive. And Steel, too maternal to leave a heroine unfulfilled and unmarried, sends her John Chapman, a man with "perfect teeth, and gentle eyes." It seems worth noting that John Chapman is the real name of Folk Hero Johnny Appleseed: fertility again...