Word: teethe
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...critical commentary. The older generation, surprisingly, comes across as the most liberated. One "Auntie" argues persuasively for taking a married lover, explaining that, "...his bad breath, his hemorrhoid attacks, his flues," etc. are all for the wife while for the mistress, "he's always bleached and ironed, his teeth sparkle, his breath is like perfume," etc. Another older woman discusses the surgery that took fat from her rear and applied it to her bosom the better to keep her husband's attention. "Of course," she says, "this idiot doesn't know that every time he kisses my breasts...
...believed that the amendment was designed for a longer, more debilitating illness than this one appears to be. They did not want a Reagan precedent to pressure future Presidents into using the amendment on inconsequential occasions--when, say, a President was under anesthesia merely to have some wisdom teeth removed...
...change was immediately greeted by angry protest. For three straight months, Coca-Cola headquarters received some 1,500 phone calls daily, as well as a barrage of angry letters. Wrote one correspondent: "Changing Coke is like God making the grass purple or putting toes on our ears or teeth on our knees." Among the most common complaints: new Coke was dull and watery and tasted distressingly like Pepsi...
...myself from the broken fragments, and looked around. I thought that gas tanks had exploded. Through a hole in the roof I could see clouds swirling in a cone; some were black, some pink. There were fires in the middle of the clouds. I checked my body. Three upper teeth were chipped off; perhaps a roof tile had hit me. My left arm was pierced by a piece of wood that stuck in my flesh like an arrow. Unable to pull it out, I tied a tourniquet around my upper arm to stanch the flow of blood...
...grass sways in the wind, each blade clearly defined in yellow and green. A molecule of DNA, its 65,000 atoms represented by gleaming spheres, twists and folds into a thick, knotty ring. Oversize baseballs zoom by at impossible speeds, trailed by surrealistic soda fountains and eerily chattering teeth...