Word: teething
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal court ruled that his National Conservative Political Action Committee violated election laws because he worked for both a Senate candidate and the supposedly independent ncpac. The beauty of this arrangement, his late ncpac colleague Terry Dolan once explained, is that "a group like ours could lie through its teeth, and the candidate stays clean...
...pointed out that actually the movie shows some distinctly unromantic aspects of heroin addiction. Advertisements, on the other hand, are supposed to display people whose lives you'd like to emulate by buying the product. That is why those cigarette billboards show vibrant young people who have shiny white teeth and lungs that presumably bear no resemblance at all to a rusted-out tailpipe...
...election has nothing to offer us. The candidates are dull, it opined. They have nothing new to say; their conventions were nothing more than infomercials. To top it all off, there's not even a contest between the two, no good horse race for the public to sink its teeth into...
...Concorde back to London three hours before a concert. Rumors of brotherly fisticuffs, drug use and (gasp!) a permanent split engulfed the British media. A London Times columnist said if the band is finished she'll "be lying on the floor, crying and wailing and gnashing my teeth...
Some 3.2 million school-age children--and growing numbers of adults--have their crooked teeth wired to grow straight. Orthodontists now use a nickel-titanium alloy, developed for the space program, to hold braces together. The new wire is more flexible and longer lasting than earlier materials, which means fewer office visits for adjustment and tightening...