Word: toothlessly
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...most Andros natives, although they know well the little men with their pink, staring eyes, toothless mouths and flame-red beards, avert their eyes when they feel a chickcharney near by, for if you bump into one face to face your only hope is to press thumb and little finger into your palm and hold up the other three fingers. Then the chickcharney may take you for a comrade; he himself has only three fingers or three toes on each limb...
...should supplant international cooperation. At the meeting American diplomats turned down all attempts to rejuvenate June-dead UNRRA with the explanation that in their view the need for international relief agencies no longer exists. The only move toward future planning U. S. delegates approved was the formation of a toothless Council of Ten which may map out world food needs, but can't move a grain of wheat...
...some 16 years rotund, toothless George Herbert Naylor has worked for a wholesale grocer firm in Wisbech (rhymes with fizz peach), Cambridgeshire. For almost every one of those years his plump wife Lillian has borne him a child. George's wages are ?4 10s.. a week. His eldest daughters Marian (18) and Hazel (17) bring home some ?3 between them from jobs at local shops...
Marguerite Stihlé, timid, toothless mother of 14 children: "I'm a Protestant . . . my husband got sick. ... I asked the church for help but they put me off. One day they even asked me for a contribution. I said 'To hell with them' and we all joined the Communist Party...
...balance of responsibility between labor and management. Something-and this was one bright light in a browned-out week-might be accomplished while memories were fresh. A wrathful Senate decided to get down to labor legislation. Senators voted 66-9 to act at once on the Case bill, a toothless version of which had been passed along by the House...