Word: teething
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rawalpindi last week, General Zia told TIME: "I have a feeling that the U.S. has given up its claims and interests in this region." As for CENTO, he called it "a treaty on paper with no significance whatsoever?no teeth, no backing." Among other CENTO leaders there is mounting impatience with the vagaries of U.S. public opinion as reflected in such congressional actions as the Turkish arms embargo and aid cuts for countries that try to acquire a nuclear capability. They also regard Carter Administration policies as quixotic and punitive. Pakistan, for example, is furious over Washington's jawboning nuclear...
...think its morbid, or something--I'm having the time of my life. I never laughed so hard. It's no less morbid than women who have breast enlargements--get a little built up for the magazines. And I've been in more pain having braces put on my teeth...
...groaned while performing the tasks, murmuring against the English Department. And the papers were graded. Some were graded by Jenny Goodman and Anne Montgomery. These were saved. Some were graded by Prudence Steiner, and these were cast by the wayside. And there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth...
...nothing very vital is added to anyone's understanding of that classic figure, and Mercouri's performance in long scenes from Medea doesn't help much either. There is much eye rolling, teeth baring and anguished screeching, but no break in the clouds of self-absorption that always hover around her. Finally, the modern Medea's story gets told, the play opens, and the picture ends, leaving the audience no wiser...
...leading swimmer of the Americans with the most to win?or lose?was Tracy Caulkins, a gangling 15-year-old from Nashville who still has heavy braces on her teeth. In the past four months she had set 14 U.S. records and one world record in butterfly, breaststroke and medley events, and her potential was enormous...