Word: toothlessly
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...Germans had contemplated using at least the natural barriers of France's toothless, unreversed Maginot Line, that notion had been blown away by the advances of Lieut. General Omar Bradley's light-footed armies. Wherever the enemy might have planned to form at least a delaying line - the Meuse, the Somme, the Aisne, the Moselle-the barriers had been swept over before he could organize any defense in strength...
...toothless old man, clenching a gnarled, rheumatic hand, entered a pub. Said...
...went then to my room. On the wall was a picture of a little boy, his toothless grin framed in tawny curls-the same boy who had just taken my hand and said: 'Well, so long...
...Senator Burton K. Wheeler had fought for a sharp-toothed bill which would save every pre-Pearl Harbor father from the draft until the last childless man in the U.S. had been inducted. As finally amended and signed by the President, the bill was well-intentioned and toothless: fathers will be kept at the bottom of draft lists so long as this does not affect "the orderly flow of men into the armed forces...
...turn job-seekers away. Boeing still needs some 5,000 to 6,000 workers, but job-seekers simply poured in too fast for assimilation until certain job classifications are built up and new production schedules go into effect. Thus Boeing was in the excruciating position of a starving, toothless man being offered a thick steak...