Word: teething
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, 24 nations had followed Britain in slashing the dollar price of their currencies. For some it was like pulling teeth. Belgium, with one of the hardest currencies in Europe, groaned and devalued by 12.3%. Among the holdouts were Switzerland, Italy and Pakistan, but all of them faced trouble exporting their goods at the old exchange rates. Few were in the monopoly position of Pakistan, which seemed to have decided that India could not get along without Pakistani jute and cotton and would have to pay at the pre-devaluation rate for them. (India promptly raised cries...
...institute's collection: George Washington's famed store teeth. Of the three known sets, one is privately owned, one is on display at Mount Vernon, one is owned by the University of Maryland School of Dentistry...
...years old, Nukashook had about reached the end of her days. In the tiny village of Eelounaling on Boothia Peninsula, one of Canada's northernmost Eskimo settlements, children regarded her as a cross and ugly old hag. The "spitting sickness" (tuberculosis) had long plagued her and her teeth were gone. One day last summer, while she lay coughing in her tepee, Nukashook called to Eeriykoot, her 21-year-old son. "I am suffering too much," she said. "Put up the rope so I may kill myself...
Closed Deal. In Oklahoma City, Mrs. Bessie Ledick told the court that when she offered to sell a set of false teeth to Fred E. Humphrey, he tried them on for size, seemed satisfied with the fit, but refuses either to return them...
...have much idea of what she was going to play. She has never worried much about that. "If the crowd is noisy, or I don't feel so good, I just play some of my old arrangements and get out," says Mary Lou, flashing her white teeth. "If I feel like it and the crowd is good, then I just settle back and maybe do a little composing right on the spot...