Word: teething
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Best gadget of all is human one -seven-foot thug with preternatural strength and steel teeth, which he uses to snap victims' spinal cords. Name: Jaws. Orthodontist's nightmare. Running gag is that each time he is dispatched-trapped in building cave-in, flung from speeding train, tossed into shark tank, even torpedoed-Jaws (Richard Kiel) implacably reappears. In his silly, mechanical, likable way, a perfect symbol for Bond films. They're attacked, dismissed, put out of mind, but keep coming back and back and back...
...ACAS can merely recommend compliance. If the court accepts Ward's basic contention that he cannot be forced to accept APEX, union officials fear there will be a host of legal challenges to ACAS recommendations. Says APEX Official John Wall: "If the court rules that ACAS has no teeth, there will be hell raised within the Trades Union Congress...
...just a little bigger and a little faster- Texas style," says a proud park official. But it retains the original Cyclone's sheer drops: the first of them, a devastating 53° plunge, bottoms out 92 ft. below the crest. Riders have lost wigs and false teeth in the 60-m.p.h. near freefall. St. Louis' Six Flags boasts the Screamin' Eagle; No. 1 in the Guinness Book of World Records, it is the longest, fastest, highest coaster. Its hills are less precipitous- 45° to 50°- but it features a series of close-set hills that...
...hand out, and the storekeeper is shaking his hand as he thinks yes, he is like his pictures, a squat, fat, funny owl of a man, straight black hair combed back from a ruler-edge part, Coke-bottle glasses betting the tiny eyes, the wide, grinning mouth jutting teeth above the weak chin...
...feel your article "Arming for the 21st Century" [May 23] came at an appropriate time. With the Russians arming to the teeth, it would be foolish of us not to take countermeasures. I hope we will continue to develop our conventional arms and also the more sophisticated ones, like the Bl. It will be an expensive burden, but worth...