Word: teethe
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...have gotten used to your parents telling you to brush your teeth every morning...
Even faithful Democrats felt their teeth itching. "I found myself saying, 'Just don't say anything, Al,'" said Ohio Congressman Ted Strickland. "I don't think he has to try to win every point and cram in every bit of information about every subject. The issues favor my party and my candidate, and because of that it's a little disconcerting that a good argument, a good debate point, would be diminished by the way it's presented...
...demo disc of PC viruses I came across about a decade back. The software was a sort of digital rogues' gallery, intended to "educate" the user by demonstrating how certain bugs behaved. Activate the "Cascade" demo, for instance, and letters would pop out of your text like rotten teeth and collect in a pile at the bottom of your screen. These domesticated viruses weren't infectious like their cousins in the wild. If you just removed the floppy from the PC, the mischief would cease...
...motivation. But when I was younger things were different: I had a horrible job (taxi driver), a horrible apartment (cramped, dark, infested), and five-figure dental problems. I needed inspiration. I needed a goal, a quest. I needed to think about something other than how I was losing my teeth...
...this point, Lehrer had apparently exhausted every two-minute foreign policy question, so he moved on to domestic issues. And Gore, who had been almost visibly holding back through the first 45 minutes, finally sunk his teeth into the exchange, effectively grilling Bush on failed attempts to pass hate crimes legislation in Texas and managing to paint himself as an ally of both Cheney and Lieberman on the issue of gay marriage. On gun control, the differences were less stark: Gore favoring licensing but vowing to keep his hands off "hunters? and sportsmen?s rifles." Bush held up pretty well...