Word: toothlessness
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...Senate, up for a vote came a toothless, Johnson-backed compromise designed to end a five-week filibuster, mainly by Democratic liberals, against Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's attempt to delay enforcement of a Supreme Court ruling that both branches of every state legislature must be apportioned on a one-man, one-vote basis. Johnson does not really care how that matter is resolved-just so long as it goes away and frees Democratic Congressmen to get out and campaign for the national ticket. But the compromise, sponsored by Minnesota Democrats Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy...
...showman's rule of "Ya gotta get 'em in the tent." Every exhibit clamors for the attention of the passing public-and then goes on to hammer real knowledge into the heads of people ranging in age, as Lohr puts it, "from two to toothless." The museum, which just received its 50 millionth visitor, is probably the world's biggest institution of informal, nonobligatory mass scientific education...
...miss a splotch of the local color: a massive bowl of sinister black spaghetti that turns out to be white spaghetti slathered with an old Sicilian specialty, squid-ink sauce; a battle-royal between two skinny, toothless, fierce old men who roll about the rocky landscape hissing and ripping and snapping at each other like a couple of scorpions; a statue of the Virgin held in particular veneration by the Mafia: she has big soft, sentimental eyes-and her hand supports a skull...
...down in that legchair Madam and open your gorble wide-your mouse is all but toothless...
Tigers Not Toothless...