Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALKING HAPPY is an amiable amble through a Dickensian landscape breezily propelled by moving sets, spirited choreography, and a beguiling zephyr named Norman Wisdom who, as a "my fair laddie," is a bootmaker lifted out of the lower classes by his shoestrings...
When a tooth growing out from its bud in the jawbone gets trapped-either in the bone itself or between other teeth-dentists say that it is "impacted." The problem occurs most often with the four so-called wisdom teeth, or third molars, which generally erupt around the end of adolescence. And the catalogue of troubles that have been traced to impacted wisdom teeth is virtually endless. At one time or another, New York University's Dr. Irving Salman told the Greater New York Dental Meeting last week, they have been accused of causing everything from facial deformity...
...authorities believe they should be removed routinely as a preventive measure. One school even proposes extraction before the teeth are fully formed, on the ground that a growing third molar may press against a second molar's roots hard enough to cause damage. Dr. Salman prefers to leave wisdom teeth in place until the facial bones are fully grown, usually between the ages of 16 and 18. Lower third molars, he said, even though they seem to be pushing through at an angle, have a tendency to right themselves if they have room...
...course of evolution, the human jaw has become progressively smaller, leaving insufficient room for the full complement of third molars, which the great apes still grow. From 27% to 30% of people lack buds for one or more wisdom teeth...
...Wisdom of India; he retrieved it easily -it was like taking Gandhi from a baby...