Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youths at Catoctin Mountain are a pathetic lot. One is Robert Collier, 16, a pale, skinny boy from Big Stone Gap, Va., who had hardly got settled in camp when he had to have 14 teeth extracted. Asked when he had last been to a dentist, he replied: "I ain't never been." Another is Ray Martin, 18, who hails from "a holler" near Isom, Ky., where he lived with his widowed mother, six brothers and sisters. At six, Martin was gathering coal in an abandoned mine shaft to provide the family's fuel. At 16, he went...
...hose for a shaft; another is hinged in four places, still another has a shaft 12 ft. long. A canny showman, Hahn modifies his routine periodically to keep it fresh. He no longer, for instance, performs his William Tell Shot-driving the ball off a tee clutched in the teeth of a pretty girl...
...peace in Indo-China," prophesied Chen, "so long as the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism hang on there." Later, Chen told a touring Swiss journalist: "The Chinese people will not stand idly by as North Viet Nam is attacked. China and North Viet Nam go together like teeth and lips...
...that odd, oral simile Chen neglected to say who was the teeth and who was merely the lip. But Peking's friends provided plenty of lip service. From Djakarta to Caracas, mobs led by Chinese Communist and other "students" smashed U.S. embassy windows, burned cars, ripped American flags, winged inkpots, and howled for Lyndon Johnson's blood. Back in Moscow after his eleven-day swing through Asia, So viet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at least partly echoed the Peking line; he promised "appropriate" military aid to the North Vietnamese, and his propaganda machine threatened dire consequences unless "American imperialism...
...Chinese, who comprise 98% of Hong Kong's population, have traditionally distrusted banks, preferring to keep their savings in the form of jewels in a safe or gold under a mattress or in their teeth. Such suspicion has waned considerably, however, as Hong Kong has become mainland Asia's leading trade and banking center, with a long-stable currency that is fully backed by Britain. Last year the colony's 80 banks hit a record $1 billion in deposits...