Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Such attention most likely will exacerbate a trend seen in recent months--the increasing disenchantment of many, even in the traditional CCA coalition, with "extreme stands" on housing issues. The question first arose when David Sullivan last spring tried to add new teeth to the anti-condo ordinance. Grumblings about "going too far" were soon heard, and the furor that surrounded attempts to prosecute some condo purchasers were effective weapons not only for Independent slate councilors but also for Wilkes. Though councilor Saundra Graham stuck staunchly behind Sullivan, West Cambridge representatives of the traditional CCA like Francis H. Duehay...
...here that British forces, led by Charles Earl Cornwallis, for whom this university is named, soundly defeated the much larger forces of the French and rebellious Americans and took prisoner their commander, George Washington. If you're interested in such peculiarities, you can see his brandy-stained teeth, which were fashioned out of hippopotamus tusk, in Prince Charles Hall, right next to Pocahontas' feathered headdress...
Natural foods are also popular because they reputedly make folks look better. In the fitness game, appearances are deceivingly important. Looking good, whether for love or money, is a national aim. "We're just madly brushing our teeth, shampooing, and holding our stomachs when we make love," complains California Psychologist Michael Evans. "We've made the ideal physical type one that is really difficult to achieve...
...fear of Wrinkle City. Says he: "People are scared of getting old. They believe they won't have a sex life, they believe they won't work, they believe they won't get any respect, they believe they'll be hard of hearing, and their teeth will fall out, and nobody will want them." The aging are into fitness all right, but anyone who wants to feel really old has only to confront another statistic. The huge baby-boom generation, which statistically has already helped bulge out of shape various U.S. institutions, including schools and colleges...
...against charity, they said, quoting St. Paul. The odd, vivid term sometimes used for it was backbiting. The word suggested a sudden, predatory leap from behind-as if gossip's hairy maniacal dybbuk landed on the back of the victim's neck and sank its teeth into the spine, killing with vicious little calumnies: venoms and buzzes...