Word: toothful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bear in her yard will live, for now. When biologist Eriksen arrives, he finds the animal barely whimpering. Madonia shoots her with a tranquilizer and pours water over her belly to cool her down. They tag her, fit a radio transmitter around her neck and extract a baby tooth to study. Then they release her in a wildlife-management area, shooting her with rubber buckshot as she scampers off. That's what Eriksen calls "attitude conditioning," intended to instill a fear of humans. But that fear is often overcome when hunger meets the smell of stale baked goods and other...
...Sports Illustrated, stated that the muskie's name, muskellunge, derives from Ojibway or perhaps Cree terms meaning "great deformed ugly fish." That's more insulting than it needs to be. The muskie is quite handsome, in its mysterious, prehistoric way. But Johnson was working in the red-in-tooth-and-claw style of hunting-and-fishing prose. The muskie, he wrote, "has the sinister appearance of a stalking submarine." He went on: "There is no other fish like the muskie. It is diabolical in its cunning, maniacal in its rage, unpredictable in its habits. It is the most awesome...
...sweet tooth has been with me since before I lost my first bicuspid, but my first cavity was only detected in the summer after my first year in college. That was the year that I maxed out on Cokes at breakfast. It was also during that first year that my father discovered Costco, in a big way. He sent me two-pound cartons of Swedish fish monthly, and though I was initially possessive with the gummies, soon my entire suite was chewing on the darling little minnows--breakfast, lunch and dinner. I should have seen the cavity coming...
...find ourselves more often than not propelled headlong in that single direction since the womb. Preschool, elementary school, high school, Harvard and a Big Life. Most of us had the goal of Harvard in mind in high school; many of us fought, tooth and nail, to make the grades so that we could get into Harvard Med. Others brushed up on case questions for months before that fateful interview for BCG. We think that we'll take a couple of years, make a slew of cash, and then sit back and do what we really wanted to do with...
...enough to keep you from lighting up, maybe the idea of walking around without any teeth will do the trick. According to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette smoke is a major contributor to the development of gum disease and subsequent tooth loss. In fact, smokers who puff away on a pack a day are six times more likely than nonsmokers to develop periodontitis, or advanced gun disease. More moderate smokers are also at a high risk; as little as half a pack a day can mean a threefold increase in smokers? chances...