Word: teething
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to work in the morning," says McGuane. "After 50 years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth...
...wafer and held aloft by a pair of tweezers is all but invisible. Even under a bright light, it looks like nothing more than a speck of dust. But magnified 160 times in an electron microscope, the speck begins to take on shape and function: a tiny gear with teeth the size of blood cells. "You have to be careful when handling these things," warns Kaigham Gabriel, an engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories . "I've accidentally inhaled a few right into my lungs...
From microscopic motors to gears with teeth no larger than blood cells, advances in miniaturization could lead to robots the size of a flea -- not to mention a new generation of really portable computers...
Imagine a monster with the teeth of a shark, the talons of an eagle, the neck of an antelope and the hindquarters of an ostrich. A mythological chimera? Not at all. "I stepped down into this gulch," recounts University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, "took 25 steps and screamed." Directly ahead, atop a sandstone knoll, lay the full skeleton of a 2-meter-long (about 6 ft.) carnivore. It proved to be the most ancient dinosaur discovered to date...
...first problem with the treatment of the report was that it had its teeth removed by the Faculty Committee. Months of effort by a competent and dedicated senior faculty committee deserved more than a cursory examination by a steering committee that met behind closed doors...