Word: toothlessness
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...Gardens photographers snapped pictures of rhododendrons in bloom five weeks before their time. Here & there, jokers were at work. Enthusiastic residents of Scarborough, in a frenzy of excitement over the notes of the first cuckoo, were crestfallen to discover that the trills of good cheer actually came from a toothless street cleaner named Hezekiah Johnson. "I wait until a crowd gathers," admitted Johnson. "Then I go into a nearby park and cuckoo. They all take it in. I used to do a nightingale," he added, "when I had my teeth...
Liaison & Action. That same day Premier Robert Schuman's new inflation remedy, the "supertax" on incomes over 450,000 francs ($3,798), became law when it was rubberstamped by the toothless Council of the Republic (upper house of the legislature, replacing the old Senate). Communists and Gaullists in the Assembly had been against the supertax. Now this formidable new grouping of the classes moyennes, most of whose people were probably Gaullist voters or sympathizers, was out to do battle against...
...miracle!" cried someone in the crowd. A toothless, middle-aged woman, dressed in black save for a gay bandanna around her head, came hobbling down the street. "For two years I have not been able to walk," she cried. "I was carried to the Father. Now look at me. I'm walking. Viva Padre Antonio." Those who followed her joined in a throaty "Viva." Then she shouted: "Viva our Lady of Grace," and the crowd chorused. Two women with her wept. Men doffed their hats as she moved slowly past...
...subject of discussion was to be Aleksandrov's History of Western European Philosophy. Only a year before, it had been awarded a 100,000 ruble Stalin prize. To this startled group, Zhdanov laid down the Central Committee's charges against Aleksandrov: 1) he had preached a "toothless vegetarianism" toward the philosophical enemies of Marx-Lenin-Stalin; 2) perhaps unsuspectingly, he had become "the prisoner of bourgeois historians of philosophy." The cream of the jest was that such had been the substance of Aleksandrov's charges against many another Soviet intellectual...
Yaaah! In San Jose, Calif., a woman left her dentist with her completely toothless mouth painted a bright purple, spotted a gentleman friend outside and playfully gave him a great big purple yawn, felt rather foolish when he turned out to be a total stranger...