Word: toothlessness
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...brassy sun signals noon each day. Central America is a place that O. Henry would still recognize. A fly-buzz quiet settles over the cobblestone streets of Tegucigalpa. Honduras; the weary bell of the city's crumbling, weather-stained cathedral gives out a few clunks, and toothless crones in black shawls shuffle inside. In Managua, Nicaragua, scrawny men, their shirttails out, flop gratefully in shady places in the plazas. In El Salvador, leaving some ornate mansion, a member of one of the 14 families that run the country glides by limousine to his club for an afternoon of bridge...
...many people (myself included)." After World War II, Sir William continues, Britain, though declining as a military power, was gaining a new reputation for "moderation, wisdom, respect for international law . . . Suez blew it all away," and Britain was made to appear "the same old grasping imperialist as ever, but toothless and rather incompetent." If Eden had not resorted to force, "some kind of international element in the control of the canal would have been preserved; the weakness of Great Britain and France would not have been so publicly demonstrated, and many people now dead would be alive...
...Miss Howard simply hasn't got it, but she is a competent actress with a splendid pair of shoulders. Lee Henry is similarly undefinitive but competent as Ultimate Evil. Arthur Malet cannot quite fit his occasional moments of menace into the prevailing pixyishness of his interpretation, but his picturesque, toothless old jailer is an exquisitely professional...
...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...