Word: teething
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life is similar to the reader's, and a usually rich, arrogant hero who initially patronizes the heroine, then sweeps her off her feet "like a leaf in the wind" into a blissful, totally unLiberated marriage. Curses never go beyond an impetuous hero's "God's teeth!" ("What a shocking remark!" exclaims the heroine.) Sex never gets further than a kiss, but manages to crop up in perfervid abundance anyway. (Flushed heroines protest, "No, I don't go in for promiscuous kissing.") And the ubiquitous third-person narrator wonders: "What on earth was the matter with...
...something on the ball. Born in 1893, he joined the Bolsheviks at the age of 14, became a Futurist poet, and then the brightest star in the Soviet poetic firmament for a decade or so after 1917. He evidently had mixed feelings about this. "I'm fed to the teeth with agit-prop," he remarked in a poem published about three weeks before his suicide in 1930. More important, he apparently had his doubts about whether the Soviet state was still worth writing agit-prop about. After his suicide Stalin announced he was the greatest poet of the Soviet...
...counting goes on for several days, under the watchful eyes of the candidates, their supporters, and various old pols who emerge for this biennial spectacle. There is much anxiety and knashing of teeth, as candidates who do not have enough number one votes must hope that they played second fiddle in the minds of other voters...
...toothed young woman arrives at the simple home of a doctor in Phoenix, Ariz. She says she is embarrassed about her teeth and bashful with men. Then, with sudden force and apparent malice, the doctor commands her to practice spurting water through her teeth until she is sure she can hit the young man who often meets her at the office watercooler. Soon after, the woman carries out her mission. The next day, the young man lies in wait for her with a water pistol. Eventually they marry. Her problem seems to have vanished magically...
...average chunk of food extracted from the windpipe of victims, Eller and Haugen say, is about the size of a cigarette pack; in one case, they report, the piece was over 7 in. long. The temptation to swallow such unmanageable amounts seems to be greatest among those with poor teeth or dentures, although a few drinks make eaters of any age more careless about their chewing. Alcohol also slows the normal gagging reaction, allowing food to lodge far down the windpipe, with often fatal results. The typical victim is over 50 years old and usually white...