Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headed home, President seemed to get folksier & folksier at every stop. In Ardmore, Okla., he yanked open a horse's mouth and stared at the animal's teeth. "Six years old," he cried. "Correct," said the horse's owner. At Lexington, in Kentucky's bluegrass country, he compared himself to the wonder horse, Citation, in predicting a homestretch victory. At Shelbyville, Ky., he talked about his ancestry: "My grandfather Truman ran off with Mary Jane Holmes and was married here in Shelbyville and lived . . . out here west of town...
Only a Landslide. In traditionally Republican Iowa, the story was much the same. Aging, ailing Senator George Wilson, handicapped by a mouth operation which had cost him his lower teeth, was losing ground fast to the Democrats' ex-Senator Guy Gillette. In a year when Iowans had already shown their dissatisfaction with the ins by dumping Republican Governor Robert Blue (TIME, June 21), it looked as though Guy Gillette, who has' always had a big following in both parties, could be stopped only by a thundering Dewey landslide...
...play does not lack insight, but its real allegiance is to the footlights, with their richer-than-life diet of emotions. As Holt, indeed, Actor Morley sinks his teeth into the role as though it were an ear of corn dripping with butter-which, theatrically, it is. As Holt's wife, Actress Ash-croft-turning from a happy young mother into a blotchy old drunk-has a fat acting part too; but for brief seconds here & there, she is so good that she gives it the pinched look of tragedy...
...Howe has earned international fame for his research on the effect of vitamin deficiencies on teeth. Past president of the American Dental Association and currently director of the Forsyth Dental Infirmary, he is Thomas Alexander Forsyth Professor of Dental Science, Emeritus...
Some dentists can't see the patient for his teeth. Occasionally, says Dr. (D.D.S.) Harold G. Ray of Northwestern University, the dentist ought to forget about molars and bicuspids and take a good look at the surrounding territory. In his preoccupation with cavities, the dentist may be overlooking other points of interest (such as signs of early syphilis) that the patient ought to know about...