Word: toothbrushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrest itself was indicative of the treatment Collins continued to receive, Federal Marshals, who usually serve notice and let the person settle personal affairs and surrender, came to Collin' home in New Orleans, handcuffed him and took him off without allowing him to grab his coat or a toothbrush...
...soil. If the soil is damp enough, organic material--leather, insects and their eggs, seeds, rope, wood, flesh, grass and flowers, cloth, animal and human feces--remains fresh and preserved. Non-organic finds, pottery and bones, are washed by the diggers, who quickly learned that potwashing with a toothbrush and cold water is no privilege. Organic finds are cleaned, repaired and otherwise conserved by the research unit's laboratory. For every object the soil yields, there exists an expert who can identify and date it. The Winchester excavations frequently relied upon scholars in such fields as hemonthology, the study...
...where she was going; ahead of her was an apprenticeship given to few singers of any kind, much less to opera singers. Primped up in big bows and crisp pink dresses by Mama (who periodically brewed her own reddener for Bubbles' auburn locks and brushed it in with a toothbrush), she set off to sing on the radio, at ladies' luncheons and bar mitzvahs...
...approached in the sordid lounge of the famed Alcron Hotel by a portly, fortyish fellow who sported a handsome toothbrush mustache and a button-down Oxford-cloth shirt. He plumped himself down in an overstuffed armchair next to me. After ordering scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard...
Encouraging Results. Many dentists are skeptical about the new technique, and no member of the Denver team is willing to claim that the operation is always successful. But in carefully selected patients who remain faithful and skillful with the toothbrush, the results of the operation are encouraging. Of 182 implants performed on 52 people over a five-year period, 104 produced new bone up to 4 mm. (one-sixth of an inch) high. One resulted in a gain that can only be called spectacular. Before the operation, a 40-year-old housewife had infection and serious bone loss. Within...