Word: jaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis had entered the ring a favorite at odds ranging from 5-to-1 to 7-to-1, and the odds generally quoted that he would win by a knockout were 5-to-2. Most sportswriters had reasoned that, although Louis was vulnerable, especially to a right to the jaw, an opponent to stand up against him had to be able to hit hard and must not be afraid of him. Braddock had not been afraid but he had not been able to hit hard, so he was knocked out. Before the fight, Farr's stock reached almost zero...
...true toxophilites call their "tackle." Hoogerhyde's proficiency with a bow & arrow really started in 1929 when he decided his form was bad. He shot 1,000 arrows a day for six months while slowly changing his arrow "anchor" grip from just behind his ear to under his jaw. Last week Hoogerhyde's rivals on the firing line were archers like Dr. Robert P. Elmer, the Wayne, Pa., physician who won the national title eight times, wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on archery and insisted on entertaining his rivals last week with bagpipe music every noon...
...them: "You saved Belgium once before, and now you must save Belgium again!" (by keeping quiet). Although Minister of Justice Victor de Laveleye, administrator of the Amnesty Law, is himself a decorated War veteran, he recently emerged from an official visit to the Mons Law Courts nursing a bleeding jaw. Later, during a commemorative service at the Brussels Law Courts, the arrival of the Minister of Justice caused all War veteran lawyers to arise and stalk from the building. Veterans associations now ban from their meetings every Deputy and Senator who voted for the Amnesty, no matter how distinguished...
...Percy Leo Crosby put it all down in pen & ink years ago in the old Life with a single drawing of a tattered youngster gazing at a rural vista and saying: "Gee, it's so beeyoo-tiful I'd like to give somebody a sock in the jaw...
...arrived 1 min. 10 sec. after the beginning of the eighth round. As Braddock took a wobbling step forward, Louis planted a right on the point of the champion's sagging jaw. The peculiar, wet-sounding detonation of what experts considered one of the hardest punches ever delivered in a prize ring told spectators on the rim of the park exactly what had happened. While Louis stood in a neutral corner, not bothering to look back. Referee Tommy Thomas counted ten over the unconscious ex-champion...