Word: teething
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...describe what had happened to her son on Hell Night. "He hardly looked human. He was covered with blood, molasses and sawdust, and was shaking with spasms ... He was covered with red marks across his back and buttocks, the latter broken in many places and swollen . . . His teeth chattered so that he could not talk...
...Liberal split. Many thought Laureano might have the good sense to put up another moderate this year. But the fires of April 9 burned too brightly in his memory. Liberals, moreover, heaped on fresh fuel. United behind middle-of-the-road Dario Echandia, and fed to the teeth by unsuppressed rural political violence (392 deaths in September according to the Liberals), they used their congressional majority to advance the election date six months to Nov. 27 in expectation of a quick victory...
...four,* a star at six, and then a dimpled, curly-topped national institution. Between seven and ten, she was the No. 1 box-office draw in the U.S.; at eight, she was the most photographed human being on earth. At nine, while other little girls waited for their permanent teeth to come in, she wore costly false teeth to hide the gaps from the camera. When she was ten, a Dies Committee witness denounced her as a Communist dupe. At 13, she was a has-been (with $3,000,000 in the bank). At 16, making a comeback, Shirley...
...devoted audience have ever seen their idols in the flesh. To make it up to the others, CBS has distributed a brochure on the stars' "mike mannerisms" that is jam-packed with nuggety information. Samples: Bing Crosby "always rehearses with his pipe clenched between his teeth, even when singing"; Robert Cummings "reads lines from a semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck is a "shoe-taker-offer." Don Ameche (with Loretta Young and Fred MacMurray, he is tied for the record with 21 appearances) drinks a pint of milk before each show...
Playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth) revealed some facts about that new play, still unnamed and still in the works: it will need no scenery, no curtain, no stage lights, no music. The house lights will not be dimmed at any time, and the action will unroll without a break. The subject: the life of a man. The casting: different actors to play the hero at different ages; one actress to play all the major female parts...