Word: teething
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gulf (1944), Indo-China (1954), Quemoy-Matsu (1954-55), and Indonesia (1958), was again the legacy of a big moment. "If the U.S. fails to take a strong position," said Admiral Stump, "all Asia will surely regard us as a subbreed of paper tiger with no guts, claws or teeth...
...quite realize, right after his election or appointment to such a job, just how much it means. People say hello, everything's gay and fine. And then comes that time-the time when you know you're going to have to stop just showing your teeth and start producing." Mike started producing right after his inauguration in June 1957. Says Matilda, who calls him "Mali" (Slavic for "little boy"): "When we were living in Fairbanks and Mali was practicing law, the jacket pocket on every one of his suits used to be torn from getting caught...
...commissions, oversees emergency work projects, orders examination of fiscal programs that will help prove Alaska's ability to stand alone, confers with Washington and territorial officials, studies his mail, e.g., "We the undersigned students have been recently examined by Dr. Brownlee and 60 having been found with defective teeth, do humbly petition our Governor, Mike Stepovich, to send us a dentist...
...strenuous pace, Dr. James N. Lynch, secretary of the Chicago Dental Society, last week added "executive mouth." Plenty of dental defects, said Dr. Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth loosen and may fall...
...free Bible school for 70 children, some of whom had been attending the local Roman Catholic parochial school. In heavily Catholic Italy all this was distressing news to the parish priest. Don Pietro Santanto-nio. "Go away, leave Fondi," Don Pietro advised Righetti. "Fondi is no bread for your teeth." But even when some Catholics threw rocks at him, Righetti stayed...