Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is a critical moment, and it leaves me with two alternatives. The first of these, the autistic imitation, seldom works, so I grit my teeth and opt for the second. "Ben Smith...
...array of horrors, I have thought up numerous ways to protect myself. An easy way to stop the "where are you from?" ordeal dead in its tracks is to say "Latvia." If they persist, demanding "Then where did you get that accent?" "Djakarta" and "Where did you get those teeth?" are personal favorites...
Nina, 87, a woman with two rows of silver teeth, dressed in a blue coat and woolen scarf, in Moscow for the day to shop: "I don't know anything about Gorbachev; I only know that we had bread under Chernenko, and we will continue to have it under Gorbachev. There is meat in the shops too. I have a pension, and Gorbachev won't take it away from...
...working area roughly the size of a baseball diamond, first by clearing the dense undergrowth and then by dropping to their hands and knees in shoulder-to-shoulder skirmish lines for a preliminary search of the area. Among the items unearthed were bits of human bones, a scattering of teeth and what the crews will describe only as "some personal effects." For the untrained, the bone fragments would be hard to recognize, often looking like nothing more than pieces of gray pumice the size of a cigar stub...
Still, Haydon was deathly ill. In the month preceding his operation, his weight had fallen from 175 lbs. to 150 lbs. His breathing was labored, and he felt so weak that just brushing his teeth was exhausting. "I'm tired of being tired," he told DeVries. Doctors estimated he had only two to three weeks left to live. His family urged him to try the artificial heart. "We % wanted it desperately," said Diana Welsh, 30, the oldest of his three children, "but it had to be his decision...