Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sharkey, the talkative, was known to be tender of stomach. Dempsey, crouched and persistent, concentrated his hammering on Sharkey's ribs and navel. Sharkey's jabs and swings rained on Dempsey's grimly contorted face, opening wet cuts under both eyes, abrading the truculent jaw...
...Sharkey's left leg, I was stepping in toward the men, saying: 'Watch your punches, Jack.' Then, realizing there were two Jacks, I said: 'I mean you, Dempsey.' Then Dempsey hit the solar plexus blow. Sharkey dropped his right hand and Dempsey hit, him a left on the jaw...
...learned with the knowledge of an explorer in Peru and of a onetime (1909-24) professor at Yale University. He is human enough to set above his mantle framed letters from various "celebrities." Of recent years he has made a sound, tenacious success in politics. His voice, his jaw and his eyes are hard-not particularly pleasant. Therefore, it would have been easy last week for him to make at Shanghai a statement calling for "strong measures" by the U. S. in China. Instead Mr. Bingham expressed so utterly the opposite view that his words had double weight. He said...
...vicarage of the Rev. Harry B. Grin-die, 70, on his wedding night. They beat tin pans, iron kettles, garbage cans, etc. They honked horns. In short, they gave Vicar Grindle an old-fashioned "tin kettling"-to remind him that they thought he had violated an unwritten jaw...
...These do not include the expeditions of scientists who dig beneath the earth's surface for lost cities, tombs, treasures, fossils, jaw bones of ancient men and animals. Diggers' recent doings will be summarized in another issue of TIME...