Word: toothlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city under siege Santiago lay brooding among itself. The lines of people waiting with ration coupons for cigarettes or soap. The almost begging appeal of shopkeepers with nothing to sell, standing in open door ways watching you pass by. An old woman crouching by a park bench stuffing a toothless craw with a heel of bread, as if something might take it away before she could finish it. And very beautiful young women prostituting themselves for five U.S. dollars to make enough money to leave the country or feed a family, they said...
Boiling vowed to try again for real reform next year. Meanwhile, the House approved a comparatively toothless reorganization bill that leaves the committee structure pretty much intact...
...wintry cold had already rolled down the slopes of the Piedmontese Alps to Turin, once the quasi-Parisian capital of the house of Savoy and now the Detroit of Italy. Outside Gate 20 of Fiat's Mirafiore plant, a toothless peddler hawked candy that he caustically called "special nougats for the economic crisis." Emerging workers were in no mood for sick jokes, and they bought none of the candy. Instead, they turned to union men passing out notices of protest strikes called against Fiat's shortened week...
...almost toothless Lions created some opportunities which allowed Ben Bryan to demonstrate his goaltending skills. The goalie position which was considered initially a weakpoint has now been solidified through Bryan's effort and Ford's advice and continuous attention...
...spite of the events around him. Precisely at nine each morning the Emperor was driven in his red Mercedes one mile from Jubilee Palace to the Grand Palace to put in what an aide described as "his customary day of work." Politically, however, the Emperor has become "as toothless as those old lions that guard his palaces," as one Western diplomat in Addis Ababa rudely...