Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selassie's invitation for a Guebbeur last week. The Emperor merely filled his palace courtyard with freshly slaughtered cattle and opened the gate. Screaming with gusto, each trooper made parallel cuts with his knife in an animal's flanks, seized the end of the strip of flesh between his teeth, pulled with a blood-gushing rip, chewed hard. As usual, the climax of the Guebbeur came a little later when the Imperial Guard grew drunk on the hot blood and cups of potent native mead. Though obliged to attend the Guebbeur, the King of Kings consumed a minimum of savage...
Sitting beside Pilot Mulqueeny, Outfielder Koenecke soon became rambunctious. He began nudging Mulqueeny, grabbing the controls, locking his arm about the startled pilot's neck. Suddenly Koenecke leaped at Parachuter Davis. sank his teeth through several layers of cloth into the smaller man's elbow, bore him to the floor, tore at his clothes, bit into his flesh again & again...
...girl, only 18, struck a few feet from the men. Most of her teeth were knocked out. Chunks of flesh were torn from her face. Her pelvis was shattered. The sharp end of a broken bone stuck out of her thigh...
...wasn't dead. She lay weakly spitting out teeth and blood. Doctors think she will live. Her face may be twisted with scars despite the surgeon's work. A policeman said she looked as though someone had hit her in the face with a sledge-hammer...
Into Panic's teeth Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming threw this information: "Infantile paralysis cases reported to the U. S. Public Health Service to date: North Carolina, 558; Virginia, 473; District of Columbia, 37; Massachusetts, 389; New York, 941. The District of Columbia, Virginia and North Carolina have apparently passed the seasonal peak...