Word: toothless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before his take-off early this month, he proclaimed that Nationalist China's President "Chiang Kai-shek should be sent to an old soldiers' home, preferably one with barbed wire around it," and sneeringly referred to the Chinese Nationalist armed forces as a "rubber dagger" and a "toothless tiger...
...able to leave your own hole in the ground.' " Then up spoke Wladyslaw Gomulka, the perfect host: "Adenauer strives to win France for his policies. Our new friend President de Gaulle may be compared to a dog who barks loudly, but is nevertheless only a toothless...
...diplomat putting his hand over an inquisitive British reporter's mouth or quipping on arrival in London in 1931: "You people have your plus fours. These are my minus fours." In the best sequences, faded with age, there was "your father"-with metal-rimmed spectacles, a big, near-toothless grin, the dollar watch dangling from the dhoti-who tenderly encircled a little girl with a garland of flowers that she had brought...
...alkaline water, reach the hideous end of their journey, Novelist Swarthout has sketched a powerful case against the military. Some of the characters, including the woman prisoner and a fugitive criminal, have a prefabricated, Hollywood patness. But Novelist Swarthout writes in a workmanlike style that only occasionally recalls the toothless tigers of the men's magazines. He explores a dark quadrant of the mind, and if he has not solved its paradoxes-coward's courage and hero's cowardice-it may be because, as he says of Chihuahua, it is a country of no answers...
...visitors), came out at night for dinner (25 to 35 live crayfish, 200 to 300 worms, one frog, several scrambled eggs, add mud and stir). But beyond that, instead of just waddling about his own business, Cecil began to court Penelope. He grabbed her flat tail in his duckbilled, toothless mouth, and held on for dear life while Penelope dragged him around the pool in slow circles. At times Cecil would let go and roll over and over in the water. But Penelope, who after all weighs two pounds to Cecil's four, did not see what there...