Word: toothful
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...responding by emigrating in large numbers." Overall, he is pessimistic, saying "Ordinary whites think the maintenance of law-and- order justifies the emergency regulations. The country is moving to the right very, very fast, and not just the Afrikaners but the English-speaking population as well. They will fight tooth and claw to avoid their fate...
...McNeely, tearing down a dirt road after two kids on unregistered, unlicensed, uninsured motorcycles, conceded there was some resistance to his policies at first. "Some people called me a little dictator, a little Hitler," he said. "I was fighting tooth and nail to clean up the department, and it seemed like everything I did got blowed out of proportion. It was all over hell." The marshal expertly maneuvered his squad car into a position to cut off the young bikers. Both got off with warnings, and the admonition that failure to correct their legal obligations would amount...
When Jenny visited the dentist for her checkup, he asked her if she threw up often; the acid had been affecting her tooth enamel. Her dentist scared her, but when she tried cutting back on her binging and purging, she found it almost impossible...
...Some readers are apt to think us unduly hard on the Carter administration," they wrote. "We go back and back to the Carter years like somebody tonguing a sensitive tooth...
...loins" and repeatedly uses the bush-league redundancy "consensus of opinion." Both authors have a good handle on Getty's complex business holdings and the right touch when dealing with the old man's harem, the collecton of seasoned beauties who lived at Sutton Place and fought capped tooth and lacquered nail for sole possession of their host. Their efforts were not well rewarded; each received a paltry, if not insulting, legacy from the richest man in the world. The bulk of his estate went to the Getty Museum in Malibu, an institution that tax-sheltered much of its founder...