Word: teething
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PURPLE AND GREEN AND 6 FT. tall, with perfect TV-anchor teeth and bright yellow toenails. He has a doofy chuckle and a bouncy waddle, and when he isn't singing syrupy songs ("I love you/ You love me/ We're a happy family"), he has a habit of exclaiming, "Stuuuupendous!" He gets 10,000 fan letters a week, and his recent tour of America's malls had to be cut short because the frenzied tens of thousands who turned out to catch a glimpse of him created safety hazards...
...German-Jewish refugees who escaped, by the skin of their teeth and the vicissitudes of luck, the ravages of the Nazi Holocaust, it is easy -- a bit too easy, I suspect -- to feel an almost visceral dislike for the Germans, to be unwilling, in matters moral, to ever give them the benefit of the doubt. After all, it was not merely a handful but millions of Germans who at least part-knowingly acquiesced in what still seems the unspeakable: the organized, systematic gassing and torture of 11 million innocent Jews, Gypsies and others that have left scars that may take...
...latest gimmick at veterinary offices is sophisticated dentistry: cats under anesthesia getting their teeth cleaned, dogs even getting braces. Face- lifts can't be far behind...
Collier talks of having trouble finding $90 to pay to fix her father's wheelchair. And she says Medicaid doesn't cover things like false teeth...
...instructions -- one for the cable converter (to switch channels), another for the VCR (to turn on at the proper time). And even if the machine is programmed exactly right, any one of a host of pitfalls can scuttle the enterprise. Frustrated VCR users can recite them through gritted teeth: forgetting to put in a cassette; failing to turn on the timer or (on some machines) switch off the VCR; accidentally leaving on the mute button; coming home to discover that a presidential press conference has put the whole evening's schedule out of whack...