Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman he was shoved out of the chair by six-foot Nazi Lawyer Hans Frank who shouted: "You Marxist liar! You're unfit to preside. I declare myself chairman!" As Socialist, Communist and Centrist committeemen stalked out, one of them lit a cigar, had it wrenched from his teeth by a Nazi who cried: "Show respect to the Chairman...
...dogs went through their paces and struck statuesque poses, their handlers stroking their tails and composing their jaws, Mrs. Dodge eyed them, felt their flanks, examined their teeth. Her own taste runs to big dogs. She waved the Pekingese and poodle aside in a jiffy. The Spaniel went next. It took her only 18 minutes to put the Airedale in the winning stall, with the Great Dane and the greyhound unofficially second and third...
...quacks, an immeasurable ocean of buncombe . . . high-salaried experts in solving the insoluble and achieving the impossible ... a truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive tuition (or, at all events, of pleasant recreation) for downright idiots...
Twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, she used to stand at the head of a long line on Manhattan's Bowery, handing out meal tickets, clothing, spectacles, false teeth, wooden legs, etc. to those in need. It cost her and her friends $35,000 a year, was abandoned when Financier Bush decided that other relief agencies were handling the work effectively...
...simulation of what a Japanese-American war would actually bring. Few can visualize a Japanese fleet capturing and holding Hawaii as a base after steaming 3,374 mi. from Yokosuka, much less driving on from there another 2,100 mi. to reach the U. S. and the teeth of a potent Battle Force. The Pacific seems too large and bases too far apart for such action...