Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retain it. He was no boxer, that was plain; his one weapon was a left hook that crippled metaphor, but looked as easy to dodge as a freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against a fast man who can hit, he'll be done for," critics said...
...cast alone for a be the multitude of sins. If you have never seem him shaved and in the conventional after 6 o'clock dinner jacket it would be almost worth the chance to look. Then there is a hero who first gained fame because of a powerful jaw which looks well under a sombrero. He is the young lawyer striving to prevent injustice, and is homely enough to satisfy the male element in the audience...
Into a Berlin courtroom there strode, last week, a prisoner named Schwarz, who scowled upon the presiding Judge and slumped heavily into a chair, his jaw jutting...
...making all the Senators angry by proposing that they put a limit to their talk. Every now and then he still speaks of that limitation, but the whole incident seems in a fair way of being forgotten. You see that man with the iron grey hair and iron jaw-rather a fine figure -that is Senator Jim Reed, a Democrat. He is dissociated from his Democratic colleagues but he has put up a fine fight on nearly every issue that has come before this Congress. He poured forth fire and brimstone on the World Court, on the Debt settlements...
Already in the U. S. some 8,000 men have undergone this operation. Many of the operations were performed by Dr. Harry Benjamin of Manhattan. This young man (aged 41) is an imaginative surgeon. His face is powerful (jaw muscles firm; lips a straight, decisive line; eyes boring). He combines knowledge with insight, skill with daring. He shuns publicity from his knowledge of stupidly inaccurate reporting and from respect for his professional ideals. In a recent professional paper he reported on 114 of his cases. He told that 77% showed positive results, improvement, that 7% showed negative results, that...