Word: teething
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earl Long hated his place in Huey's shade. To prove himself a better man, he merely proved himself a wilder one. In his role as a man of the people, he casually cleaned between his toes at press conferences. As a political fighter, he once sank his teeth into an opponent's throat. He billed himself as "Ole Earl," and. if he never became the national figure that Huey unquestionably was, he nonetheless kept Louisiana tightly under his thumb. That is, until recently, when he determined to gimmick his way around the Louisiana prohibition against a second...
...acidulous prime, Gossipmonger Walter Winchell stood second to no columnist for journalistic terseness, ferocity and cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people...
...that I had paid for my own freedom with her death." And then there was Stépha. pert. Polish and feminine, who taught Simone to look at love more realistically and also to look in the mirror. Simone was a slob. She admits: "I hardly ever brushed my teeth and never cleaned my nails." Stépha played Professor Higgins to Simone's Eliza Doolittle. After Stépha's grooming, Simone was ready to be Professor Sartre's fair lady...
When the geriatricians have succeeded in adding another age to Shakespeare's seven, what will all the porcelain teeth chatter about? The same old things, answers thirtyish Author Spark in this novel of arthritis and ague. None of her major characters will see 70 again, but since no sin has yet proved deadly, the reasoning of the ancients seems to run. there is reason to hope that wrongdoing may even be healthful. So they tyrannize each other, gloat over signs of decrepitude in contemporaries, stir the ashes and the urns of old loves with gossip. One septuagenarian lady runs...
...miles in 2:05 and jogging the laps in between at nearly the same speed) that the exhausted Elis were soon reduced to a sort of relay system: one runner staying with Gilligan while the other rested. After watching Gilligan's exhibition, Harvard two-miler Dyke Benjamin gritted his teeth and gave the Oxford performer something to think about by turning in eight quartermiles under 60.0, two of them faster than his previous personal best...