Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queues. In Omaha, Billy Paxton, 13, told to make a list of practices important to dental hygiene, wrote: 1) "Brush your teeth after every meal"; 2) "See your dentist twice a year"; 3) "Stay away from fountains where they push...
...temporary and involuntary inmate of the Imam's palace, British-born Rita Nasir, last week described how the Imam punishes a recalcitrant wife or concubine caught in such offenses as smoking. She must kneel in front of the throne while the Imam's dentist yanks out several of her teeth for each offense...
Married. Althea Louise Brough, 35, national women's singles tennis champion in 1947, Wimbledon champion in 1948, '49, '50, and '55; and Dentist Alan T. Clapp, 35, of Pasadena; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...American woman "must do credit to her husband's taste in 'wife choosing.' She is proving herself in a completely visible way, and she finds the idea frightening." Concludes Kroehler: "The American consumer approaches the purchase of furniture much as she approaches a visit to the dentist. She must go sooner or later and will probably feel better afterward, but it is such an agonizing experience that maybe it could be put off for a few weeks, a month or even a year...
...show that the All-American smile can become oppressive, he recalls a dentist whose nurses made him feel that "dying in the midst of these happy smiles and the angel wings of these white, immaculate uniforms would be a pure pleasure, a moment of no consequence . . . I left this dentist, in order to protect within my mind the Christian idea of death...