Word: teething
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle Stations. In St. Louis, during an argument in Sportsman's Park, Baseball Fan Joseph Cherry took off his glasses, removed his false teeth, then punched Usher William F. Goza in the nose...
...lights went out. Listeners above could hear his teeth chattering and he seemed short of breath. Once he said: "I'm freezing to death." But he stuck it out to 4,500. "I'll say it's cold down here. There goes a big white jellyfish. I never saw anything like that before...
Sere & Yellow. In Iona, Fla., Richard Thompson, 90, calmly threw away his 40-year-old false teeth because they were getting in the way of four new molars just coming through...
...Rocks. One of the likeliest of these newcomers is Montgomery Clift, sometimes called "the hottest thing in Hollywood." Clift, 28, earned fine reviews on Broadway in The Skin of Our Teeth and The Searching Wind before he went to Hollywood. There he refused long-term contracts, picked scripts shrewdly. Last year, in his first two pictures-M-G-M's The Search and Howard Hawks's Red River-his good acting and good looks clicked immediately...
...drawing a pond and trees in charcoal on the curved back of an empty display case. "Half a dozen beavers are going in here," he said. "One of them will have just come out of the water, and one will be gnawing a branch-to bring out the teeth...