Word: teething
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murder punishable by death, and Oregon reinstated capital punishment for premeditated murder. But perhaps the referendum with the most bite was in Oregon. There voters approved an attempt to cut dental bills by allowing the state to license anyone with six months' training to fit and sell false teeth...
...sank my teeth into one of those Philadelphia pretzels as the opening kickoff settled into Paul Connor's hands. It was Penn 13, Harvard 0, as I wiped the mustard from my lips...
...after application of new analytic techniques to thefamous skull, the ruse was finally revealed: the Piltdown man, as the fossil was dubbed, was a fraud. It consisted of nothing more than fragments of modern human skulls mingled with portions of a contemporary ape jaw with teeth doctored to give them the appearance of antiquity. As the years passed, scientists abandoned hopes of ever identifying the prankster...
...turned toward me when I came in and moved wide as his smile toward me and sent my teeth spinning through lamplight. It seemed an obvious extension of my beef with Peavey. But I asked him why he had hit the dog. This only reminded him and the grin became one of discovery. He headed for the dog and I headed for the tipped-over lamp. I picked up a piece of milk glass about the time he got to the dog and hit him in the side of the face with...
...turned in astonishment and what there was was very much like the earlier smile; but it went back to his ear on one side and you could see teeth...