Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friend Clémenceau. Mr. Warren declared roundly that he had never seen M. Clémenceau in better health and spirits or more fully in touch with the current situation in France. The famed whiskers may droop like the tusks of an old walrus, but between them the decisive jaw continues to snap with the fierce pugnacity of a bulldog...
...Kansas City, Andre Andersen, heavyweight Chicago boxer, landed a terrific smash upon the jaw of Wayne ("Big") Munn, noted wrestler and onetime wrestling champion of the world, who had thought he would like to break into the boxing game...
...that will maim and devastate. Some go through life without ever suffering a disillusion on this score; others have their prayer, "Just gimme a sock at 'em," gratified, but administer the sock only to find that it has small effect. It lands fearfully on the point of a jaw, and the recipient smiles and shakes his head as if a drop of water had landed on him. This is usually enough to discourage most sockers. In Buffalo last week, it discouraged Jimmy Goodrich, who was at the moment lightweight champion of the world. He had just socked Rocky Kansas...
Haled to court, Mr. Johnson said: "In trying to keep him from hitting me with a crank handle, my hand accidentally came into contact with the lower part of his jaw...
...Manhattan, one William Arthur Ray, Negro, foamed at the mouth, smacked one Julia Green, Negress, on the jaw, was smacked in return, Mr. Ray curled back his thick lips, sank 'his lupine teeth into the hand that had smacked him. Doctors injected Negress Green with the Pasteur hydrophobia serum, placed Biter Ray under the observation system usually reserved for mad dogs...