Word: teething
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other influential woman in Carter's life is his mother, "MISS LILLIAN" (pronounced Lee-yun), a redoubtable personality who would have fascinated William Faulkner and Bertolt Brecht. Says she: "Everything I started, I finished. Jimmy got that from me." Indeed, she bequeathed him his pearly teeth, his smile, his inquisitiveness, his endurance -and, fans say, his compassion...
...demand everywhere, "I don't dare produce on a large scale" because of the taxes. In order to avoid records of transactions and hence a tax on earnings, there has even been something of a return to barter. Example: a dentist will fix a plumber's teeth in exchange for having a sink repaired...
...month moratorium on the disputed research, which is already under way at M.I.T. The two schools are not legally bound to comply, and in any event, Harvard did not plan to open the new lab where the work will take place until next spring. But the council could put teeth into its order by declaring such genetic research a public health hazard and banning it within city limits...
...have come to revere him. For one thing, he looks every inch a general. A big man, heavily muscled (6 feet 2 inches, 200 pounds), he has a strong, square face lightly marked by small pox. At 44, he is in perfect condition but for several missing teeth. He dresses in a fine uniform of dark blue faced with buff, set off by brass buttons. He is a great horseman -some say the best in Virginia...
...passenger -whose single aperture is cunningly contrived to pass only money forward and cigar smoke back. All this is designed to induce in the customer a paralytic yoga position: fists clenched into the white-knuckles mode, knees to the chin, eyes glazed or glued shut, bones a-rattle, teeth a-grit. To a lesser extent, the same conditions prevail in other taxi-ridden U.S. communities...