Word: toothless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less hopeful was toothless, 73-year-old Thakin Kodaw Hmine, the Ben Franklin of Burmese independence. "I was unhappy under the British and Japanese," he groaned last week, "but now I am very sad. My young disciples are killing each other like barbarians. I guess this isn't the time for young men to take the lead in government affairs...
...Schwellenbach, 53, U.S. Secretary of Labor, ex-senator from Washington (1935-40), ex-judge of the District Court for Eastern Washington (1940-45); after long illness; in Washington, D.C. In 1945 at the urging of old friend and new President Harry Truman he took over from Frances Perkins the toothless, whittled-down Labor Department, soon found that liberal leanings and hard work were not enough to keep him from being the frustrated man in the middle of most postwar labor troubles...
...gruff and toothless old lion of U.S.politics growled softly with rheumatism and prepared once more for combat. The Socialist Party held its 1948 presidential convention in Reading...
FARMERS EVERYWHERE, busy with spring chores, were giving thanks for the mild winter. Even the blast of snow and freezing weather that had hit Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to sleep. Now, unless a May frost comes along to stab us in the back, there'll be a bumper." Sheep Raiser Ben Alderson of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, had a bumper already; one of his ewes had just produced five lambs, a circumstance considered remarkable enough to be recorded...
...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...