Word: toothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their tooth & nail fight against nationalization of their industry (TIME, Aug. 29), Britain's leading sugar refiners, Tate & Lyle, were helped by a champion as ubiquitous and eloquent as Colonel Blimp ("Gad, sir, the Americans should be forced to pay us the money we owe them!") or long-nosed, war-born Mr. Chad ("Wot, no bacon & eggs?"). The free-enterprise champion was Mr. Cube, a personable lump of sugar invented by a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman and psychological warfare expert named Roy Hudson. On millions of sugar cartons, thousands of posters, pamphlets and ration-book covers, Mr. Cube...
Penalty. In Hollis, Okla., Nan Claiborne, candidate for high-school football queen, tried the game herself, lost a front tooth and the title...
...Hollywood, the drinking of bottled water has become a mark of class; only such lowlifes as $1,000-a-week writers drink tap water. Theodora thought that she would have something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...
McNear was killed instantly when he lost his balance climbing Dent du Geant --"The Giant's Tooth"--on August 18, six miles, from the famous French peak. His body, and the body of a companion he knocked over in his fall, were recovered and cremated in Italy later in the month...
British Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin, winding up talks in Washington this week, was leaving behind a personal memento: his lower eyetooth, yanked a fortnight ago. Well-worn, silver-filled, double-rooted, but slightly smaller than the average, the Bevin tooth will be enshrined at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, along with the bridgework-of Japan's General Tomoyulci (the "Tiger of Malaya") Yamashlta, hanged for war crimes...