Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the most entertaining personals. Many of them are suffused with a soft-focus romanticism. Firelight plays over the fantasy. Everyone seems amazingly successful. The columns are populated by Ph.D.s. Sometimes one encounters a millionaire. Occasionally a satirical wit breaks the monotony: "I am DWM, wino, no teeth, smell bad, age 40--look 75. Live in good cardboard box in low- traffic alley. You are under 25, tall, sophisticated, beautiful, talented, financially secure, and want more out of life. Come fly with...
...next floor, a moist young woman fresh out of Lake Michigan got on with two youthful sports who struggled to settle their bicycles around Skoko's machine. The athletes had the look of the superfit, the whites of their eyes blue white, calves plumped out like loving cups, dazzling teeth set in gums that probably will never know the heartbreak of gingivitis. Skoko had the look of a man grown weary with this age, and the knit of his brow suggested an approaching squall line...
Elesh is not present on the crania and several teeth are missing from both, according to observers. The temple of the wax covered skull had been crushed and only the law, nasal and eyes remained intact on the second bone structure...
...Taunton, Mass., reasons. "Baseball players use it all the time." But doctors say the facts are very different. Dipping causes visible damage "in as little as three to four months," says Arden Christen, chairman of the preventive-dentistry department at Indiana University. The gums may recede, the teeth loosen, biting surfaces are abraded, and tough, white patches called leukoplakia may appear on the gums and cheeks. After several years the mouth can be devastated. Pat Stallings, 22, a University of Texas senior and ex- Skoal dipper, required a gum graft from his upper to his lower jaw after his gums...
...smallest detail this time around, the Brazilian investigators retraced their steps. Under the watchful gaze of foreign observers, gravediggers in the small hillside town of Embu reopened the local cemetery's tomb 321, from which they had exhumed some mysterious remains two weeks earlier, and turned up four more teeth and several bone fragments. On the outskirts of nearby Sao Paulo, police descended once again on the dilapidated bungalow where the mystery man was said to have lived, and uncovered two bullets and a box of medical supplies. Then, returning to the home of Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert, self-proclaimed...