With the ball in his hand and the bit between his teeth, he had a point to prove.

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Among other encouragements, he writes of improving days, how is hand feels stronger when brushing his teeth and when gripping his steering wheel.

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Once that was done, he set to the real work: with hand drills, handsaws (their teeth rubbed, to run more smoothly, with a candle end), his bevelled-edge chisel and his wide, heavy, trusty Number 7 plane, which he used for everything.

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On the other hand, sleeping dogs often arise with a fright and may well sink their teeth into you.

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The teeth, exposed by erosion and tides, can be as big as a human hand.

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But he cut his political teeth in the PRI, which he left reluctantly in 1988 when free-market technocrats gained the upper hand in the party which ruled Mexico for seven decades until Vicente Fox's election victory of 2000.

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