Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been reading for long when a softball hit him squarely in the back. He coughed twice, muttered, "Kirkland House slobs," between his teeth, and cheerfully threw back the ball. One of the fellows, whom he had met in Cronin's a few days before, asked him to join them. "No. Big hour exam in political polity," said Vag. They started throwing the ball around, often narrowly missing Vag, who had lost track completely. He put down the book and lay back on the grass, thinking. Was it just possible that political polity could not explain absolutely everything, for example Spring...
...better than two; the shorter the word, the better it harmonizes with the work of the spirit. Such a word is this word GOD or this word LOVE. . . . [A single word] pierces the ears of the Almighty God, quicker than any long psalter unmindfully mumbled in the teeth. Therefore it is written that the short prayer pierces heaven...
...looks rather like an uncivilized (no dams) beaver. The male weighs about 25 pounds. The female is smaller, and wears her breasts on the side of her back; she can refuel her young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...
...role he played in the disorders . . . was that of a power for order . . . like an evil doctor who first encourages the disease so that he may practice on the sufferer. . . ." To terrorize his opponents the Chief Ranger has a "flaying-hut" where "a skull was nailed fast, showing its teeth and seeming to invite entry with its grin. . . . Such are the dungeons above which rise the proud castles of the tyrants, and from them is to be seen the curling savoury smoke of their banquets." And when the Chief Ranger has conquered the peoples along the Marina, a dirge...
...factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false teeth...