Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teeth. A different kind of goat is involved in the Mad Show- the goat that satirists always hope to make out of such national pastimes as soap-flake TV operas, movie epics, ad jingles. The result: a kind of pleasant-evening-was-had-by-all occasion...
...Last week Sir Edward Warren announced that his Coal & Allied Industries Ltd. would open a new mine in Cessnock, 80 miles north of Sydney; it will be worked with automatic equipment, including a U.S.-manufactured continuous miner, which is operated by three men, crunches coal seams with spinning metal teeth and can chew out ten tons a minute. Helped by government tax allowances, mine owners have so far spent $236 million on such new equipment; 98% of Australia's rich black coal is now efficiently mined by machine instead of pick and shovel. Mechanical equipment has trimmed the work...
...lousy slob!" says Dilwick the police chief. "Shut up, pig," says Mike Hammer-for him, an exquisitely genteel response. He has already extracted several of Dilwick's teeth with his knuckles, later subjects him to a fatal phlebotomy with a .38-cal. slug. The action in Mickey Spillane's 18th book is embossed with his usual delicate imagery ("The sun was thumbing its nose at the night"), characterization ("On some people skin is skin, but on her it was an invitation to dine"), and grammar ("You lay there, kid"; "I thought I could discern shouts"). As always...
...perform his works in public, I'm sure he would have been kinder to himself," says Lewenthal, whose impulsive, steel-wristed style of playing is just right for Alkan. For him the concert stage is an arena, his mission "to slay the black dragon with the 88 gleaming teeth." To create the "proper atmosphere," he has the lights dimmed until he is little more than a silhouette on stage. A tall, hulking figure with a luxuriant growth of swept-winged black hair, he almost leaps off the bench to hammer home a fistful of crashing chords. In more reflective...
...However, while I can assure you that small is the number of 'Cliffies who lament through cruel, sleepless nights their debarment from the untold wonders of ol' Lamont, many are they who have gnashed their teeth in furious despair that of the two existing copies of a desired book, one was, as is wonted, mysteriously missing from the Widener stacks, and the other was cackling demonically from the hallowed shelves of Lamont Library...