Word: toothlessness
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...peace proposal was a quickly juggled anagram of all the old ones. The Russians continue to insist on a toothless international inspection program-i.e., Russia wants to do its own inspection of its armament-and on the abolition of atomic weapons before a large-scale reduction of conventional armaments. (The Russians, who control the world's biggest armies, want to impose an arbitrary one-third reduction on the troops of all the Big Five powers.) Sniffed Dean Acheson: "This takes us back...
Last week the town meeting was held at Jack Junior High School on Munjoy Hill, an old, rundown, Irish-leavened working-class district. The Hill's toothless, white-haired 84-year-old Councilman Billy O'Brion afforded the meeting some rare advertising. "That section," he cried, "is well taken care of by yours truly. There are just a few windbags up there who want to explode. All these town meetings are a frame-up." After calling Portland's City Manager Lyman Moore and the rest of the council "a bunch of crooks," O'Brion announced that...
...Switch Thrown. In the train, those passengers who were not in on the plot became alarmed. Women tried to soothe screaming babies. A toothless old man jumped to his feet, staring wildly out the window. "You should have seen the coal smoke and soot from that locomotive," he said. "It came in the window two fingers thick...
Charm School Notes. In San Antonio, Policeman Joe Melody denied that he had kissed a housewife three times: she was not wearing her false teeth at the time of the alleged offense, he said, and a toothless woman does not constitute "a kissable object...
...prints only about 50 a month, barely enough to keep him and his dog shabbily independent. His benign (and shrewd) policy: no more than one to a customer. When the agents finally nab him, they are wholly disarmed-and frustrated all over again-by his gentle air and toothless, guiltless grin...