Straightening up, his eyes ablaze, he held out the battered Stetson.

* Straightening abnormal twists of the leg bones, i. e. femur ( termed femoral anteversion or antetorsion ) and tibia ( tibial torsion ).

Straightening out the leg causes pain because it stretches these muscles, while flexing the hip activates the iliopsoas and therefore also causes pain.

Straightening out his act, Buster was said to have joined the military ; a high-ranking official with the surname of Witwicky was later seen addressing Marissa Faireborn, and although it was not stated, it can be assumed this was intended to be Buster.

Straightening irons, straighteners, or flat irons, not to be confused with curling irons, work by breaking down the hair's hydrogen bonds found in the hair's cortex, which cause hair to bend and become curly.

Straightening of warped steel weldments is done with an Oxy-acetylene torch and is somewhat of an art.

Straightening Teeth Over the Internet ; Thousands of Orthodontists Use Web for First Time to Treat Patients.

* Straightening of Taxiway A at the current terminal ramp.

This serious condition, popularly known as pyorrhea, is one of the chief causes of tooth loss in adults.

Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts ; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one ; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet of the crocodile ; in having the toes of the hind feet webbed not more than half way to the tips ; and an intolerance to salinity, alligators strongly preferring fresh water, while crocodiles can tolerate salt water due to specialized glands for filtering out salt.

The digressions can be understood to cover two themes: an account of the history of the entire known world as governed by the principle of reciprocity ( or what today might be more commonly called an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and one good turn deserves another ); and an account of the many astonishing reports and sights gained by the author during his extensive travels.

It is said to have a long and very flexible neck and only one tooth but a very long one ; some say it is a horn.

Thus, while occlusal splints do prevent loss of tooth enamel from grinding, use of a " one size fits all " splint can worsen TMJ disorder symptoms for some people.

* Pitch ( gear ) the distance between a point on one tooth and the corresponding point on an adjacent tooth

Equines are both heterodontous and diphyodontous, which means that they have teeth in more than one shape ( there are up to five shapes of tooth in a horse's mouth ), and have two successive sets of teeth, the deciduous (" baby teeth ") and permanent sets.

Here, the adjusting lever rocks enough to advance the adjuster gear by one tooth.

A fossil tooth found in one of these was identified by Georges Cuvier as an extinct equine, which he dubbed Palaeotherium, the " ancient animal ".

The Graeae ( English translation: " old women ", " grey ones ", or " grey witches "; alternatively spelled Graiai ( Γραῖαι ) and Graiae ) were three sisters who shared one eye and one tooth among them.

Like another set of crones at the oldest levels of both Germanic and Norse mythology, they shared one eye and one tooth, which they took turns using.

A tooth may have multiple roots or just one root ( single-rooted teeth ).

It is one of the four major tissues which make up the tooth, along with dentin, cementum, and dental pulp.

Of these, cementum is the only one that is a part of a tooth.

As teeth flex under pressure, the arrangement of teeth touching each other, known as occlusion, causes tension on one side of the tooth and compression on the other side of the tooth.

This may cause a person to retain their primary tooth instead of having it replaced by a permanent one.

For each revolution a pin on the axle engaged a 400 tooth cogwheel thus turning it one complete revolution per mile.

His sweet tooth, shown through his fondness for sugar lumps, was based on a French belief that one of the traits of the English is a liking for sweets.

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.

Even the great god Faulkner, the South's one probable contender for literary immortality, has little concerned himself with these matters ; ;

An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

He is a widower, his three children are dead, he has no one left on earth ; ;

And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds, and has always found, the most racial friction.

This sentence would have most of the characteristics of a question, but it has some of the characteristics of a statement because the questioner has conveyed the fact that he has no faith in his own timepiece or the one attached to his car.

It will be noted that point f has seven nearest neighbors, h and e have six, and p has only one, while the remaining points have intermediate numbers.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

A perceptive journalist, Sam Lubell, has phrased it in the title of one of his books as the revolt of the moderates.

Research into several cultures has proven her position to be a mistaken one.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.