Word: toothlessness
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...train and demanded a ride to hell, the conductor told him: "Well, give me $2.50 and get off at Dodge." In a hair-triggered town, Dodge City's cemetery, Boot Hill, became the resting place of such characters as Horse Thief Pete, Broad Mamie, the Pecos Kid and Toothless Nell. Ellsworth was just about as bad. One morning, on a bet, a lady known as Prairie Rose walked down its main street in the buff, waving a six-gun in each hand to shoot out any eye that peeked. Thanks to her dead-shot reputation, the prairie Godiva...
...When Harry Chapin Smith, 84, died last fall and was buried in Potter's Field, most of his Brooklyn neighbors assumed that he had been what he appeared to be: a toothless, poverty-stricken derelict, who lived in a one-room hovel and sold odds & ends of junk picked up on nighttime scavenging rounds. Last week the true identity of Harry Smith came to light. The old derelict was a wealthy Harvard man, long respected by his brokers for his canny investments. Total of his estate's assets: about $400,000 in cash, bonds and blue-chip stocks...
...rough & ready National League, where almost anything short of mayhem is a fair way to stop a man, Richard has earned more than his share of scars from slashing sticks and skates. His grin, without his upper plate, is toothless. Two broken legs and a broken arm made him the Canadian equivalent of 4-F in the draft. But in this give & take, Richard has learned to give with the best of them. He once got so infuriated that he knocked out the New York Rangers' "Killer" Dill twice in a single night...
...Korea. Key point of the Communist proposal was that a joint armistice commission should be set up with, apparently, no authority to inspect anything but the 2½-mile buffer zone between the armies. A deadlock immediately ensued. Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy rejected the Red scheme as toothless. Lieut. General Nam II, the deadpan North Korean commander, rejected the U.N. plan as a "brazen interference" with the internal affairs of North Korea...
Council of Europe (14 nations), meeting in Strasbourg. This most toothless of international assemblies proved to be the most interestingly talkative (see below...