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Word: teething (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opening her mouth so wide that the pink of her gums shows, Mae West taps her teeth with her fingernails. "See that," she says proudly. "All my own. Not a false one there." Then, holding out her arms so that her wrists protrude from her jacket, she adds, "I've never had any face lifts either. You can tell by my hands and wrists. They can't operate on your hands. I've never had anything done, and I look the way I did when I was 22." You can't argue with a lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: At 84 Mae West Is Still Mae West | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...completely reject the idea of using other people as the teeth in a punishment. The decision forced the realignment of both the second and first boats when they were undefeated and a championship race was four days away." Washburn added...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Freshman Athlete Placed on Probation | 5/12/1978 | See Source »

...just that Nixon's methodical presentation of diplomatic cables, congressional battles and Vietnamese invasions is so utterly vacant of the gut feel of that era. For those who cut their political teeth on venomous demonstrations against the war and Nixon as its perpetuator, there will be little satisfaction in the excerpts' Ziegleresque newspeak. Nixon does not say he was wrong. Neither does he launch into a wild defensive screed of self-justification. Again, he seems to be trying to make everything he did seem ordinary, and even to make the context of his decisions similarly mundane. The mobilization of America...

Author: By Kerry Konrad, | Title: Talking Head: '74 | 5/11/1978 | See Source »

...Mercedes 450s and the manuals on orgasm, the barnacle-encrusted Jacuzzis, tennis gear, waterlogged paperbacks on obscure Eastern cults, Cuisinarts, bud vases, I.U.D.s and LeRoy Neiman prints, jumbled with the bones of producers and promoters. Archaeologists even found the calcified remains of a Lhasa Apso, pathetically clutching in its teeth the rawhide doggie pacifier it had tried to keep while vainly fleeing the cataclysm: mute testimony to the suddenness with which nature had rebuked (but for future museumgoers, preserved) the frail pretensions of human culture. How like us-or so the visitor to the resurrected city, preserved in a giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Coming of the Pompeians | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...would have given my eye-teeth to have the J.V. row in the same race as the varsity," Higginson added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Crews It a Clean Sweep | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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