Word: teething
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that his father and grandfather did. Each morning Spradlin enters the Bantam Mine, crouching to clear the sign that reads WORK SAFE AND ENJOY LIFE. But Spradlin has had his own close calls -- a gashed lip that took 16 stitches, a couple of cracked ribs, a broken finger, two teeth knocked...
...open a book, and an ant will be crawling on the page. You'll reach for your coffee mug, and an ant will be exploring the inside. Ants run across your hand as you type. They inch down the mirror as you brush your teeth. They're tiny specks moving across the TV, and little tickles on your ear as you talk on the phone...
...jobs in the United States until he ends up in New York as a doorman in a fancy building on the Upper East Side. Throughout the novel, we meet the eccentrictenants of the building, from a man whose apartment is filled with candy to an oral surgeon who replaces teeth with artificial and permanent white smiles. Juan's goal is to reveal to these people the figurative "door" through which they may walk to find truth and spiritual contentment...
Maybe it is my penance to be buzz-bombed by giant flies while trying innocently to brush my teeth. In AP Bio last year, I had to kill thousands of fruit flies all in the name of science. We used to dump them, along with the blue medium they lived in, into this jar of alcohol called the morgue. Their spirits have come back to haunt...
...couple of tough, skin-of-the-teeth losses, junior Melinda Wang came up short against Kari Weiner, 3-6, 7-6 (7-4), 2-6 and freshman Kindra Harris fell to Adrienne Amato...