Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team with teeth: every man was armed and trained to fight. But it was something else as well. "At first it had to be hamlet chief, schoolteacher and doctor," says a U.S. official, "a surrogate government in effect." A census of the villagers' grievances and needs was taken, and within weeks they were being met. Roads were repaired, loans granted to fishermen for larger boats, new motors, new nets. A school was set up, a health center built, fertilizer trucked in, a new sewing machine sent from Saigon after the women were organized into sewing groups...
Sometimes it is needed by the aged to permit the successful fitting of dentures; but more often it is needed by the many young adults who have the chinless "Andy Gump" profile commonly associated with a severe case of "buck teeth," a jaw that sags too far, or marked malformation or misplacement of either...
...only a few seconds and may be hours apart. In more severe cases -and most victims get progressively worse-pains may recur several times a minute for hours or days, and leave a continuous "background" ache. During severe bouts, victims cannot shave, or even wash; they cannot brush their teeth or eat solid food...
...ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi's, grinned proudly. "The boys are doing fine, just fine-they're going to make real fine cowboys," he said...
...least, with that high, rollicking rebel spirit that made Behan different from other skins. He was indeed a fine doorful of a man, as a friend said of him once, and the sight of him there in it, showing a grin that was all the more devilish for lacking teeth, was ever enough to warm the kindred heart...