Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family." David, 21 years in the commercial division, is less sure about God and more sure about the election. "I want big guns," he says half-jokingly and smiles to reveal the dentures he has worn since the errant bumper from the Ford van knocked most of his teeth onto the plant's concrete floor. "Carter doesn't have nothing going for him. I voted for him the last time, but he's made a mess of the economic situation...
Ujhelyi figures that, in Lorain, he's just about seen it all. And he knows who's going to win. "Seventy-five per cent of the auto workers will vote for Carter." Long pause to let the tongue and teeth regroup. "We've got the edge on the Republicans because there's more of us than there are of them. It's not who's for you. It's how many." There are no windows in Ujhelyi's legal den, just a lot of pseudo-wood panelling and a deep red carpet. But Ujhelyi says he doesn't need...
...release of the hostages, both candidates' camps agree, would give the President's campaign a powerful boost. The Republicans would have to join in the national rejoicing. Says one Reagan adviser: "We would grit our teeth and say how delighted...
...would be vital-and the pollsters, and the journalists. No wonder Americans began to believe the reviews of how they were expected to respond. To hear some tell it, they were planning to pull up around the television set as if it were Oscar night in Hollywood and measure teeth, hair, voices, eyes and shapes, thus resolving months of indecision by observing 90 minutes of two-dimensional posturing...
There, upon the ground, lay the whitened image of a youth. His white eyes were starting from their crumbly sockets; his white mouth was gaping and within it, his teeth (still unconsumed), gleamed like beads. But worst of all, round his white neck was the knot of the white scarf (once black) with which he had been strangled! The burning quicklime, like the burning mind above it, had thrust up the knowledge of the crime...