Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rating: [3 umbrellas] A water-logged Rebecca Chase delivers her report through chattering teeth. She wears the outfit well, but doesn't really seem to be enjoying the challenge. Rebecca, you may need a new agent...
...battle-hardened, semtex-wielding terrorist: Take his house away. Legislators in Britain and Ireland get their first look at sweeping new antiterrorism laws proposed by both country's governments Tuesday -- and if the advance leaks are to be believed, the power to seize property is about to become the teeth in the peace process. If the bills are passed in emergency session Wednesday and Thursday, the five suspects currently being held in connection with the Omagh bombing could face losing their homes and financial assets -- not to mention losing their right to remain silent when questioned in court...
...Elmer Gantry in the flesh and in the heart, and his heart is many chambered. The hero of Sinclair Lewis' great novel about oversize human frailty, made into an even better movie that starred Burt Lancaster and his aggressive teeth, was, like Clinton, a born embracer: "He had a voice made for promises." Discovering his calling as a revivalist preacher, Gantry rose to prominence on the words, "Love is the morning and the evening star." That was his sermon, which did double duty as his seduction line for women. Eventually his wandering eye brought him down; his once adoring congregation...
...bacteria, so piercing any part of it can trigger some rather nasty infections. There is also the risk of contracting hepatitis or HIV from an unsterilized needle, as there is with any piercing or tattooing. And dentists are starting to see a lot of problems they never expected: broken teeth, blood clots, patients choking on loose jewelry. It's a wonder no one has died...
...problems of tongue piercees are rarely so severe. More commonly, patients come in complaining that they have cracked their teeth against the rings and barbells in their tongues. Dentists Wayne Maibaum and Vincent Margherita of Warwick, N.Y., report the case of a 19-year-old woman who got into the habit of idly biting her metal tongue bar and one day bit down on it so hard she chipped off a piece of one of her molars. "In that particular case, all I had to do was grind the tooth and smooth it down," Maibaum says. "But if the fracture...