Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the most valuable. Even his liver, when pressed under heat, exudes oil of great medicinal worth. And his tongue is a Parisian delicacy. Cod?a big creature?is partial to olive-green covering and is distinguished by a subtle beard at the tip of the lower jaw. The cod catch on the Newfoundland coast has not been seriously diminished...
During the next ten years, with iceberg jaw, fists like demijohns, he begot a legend for his country. He toured, offering $1,000 to any man who could last four rounds with him. He thumped Charlie Mitchell, "The Bombastic Sprinter." He broke half the ribs of Jake Kilrain in a fight at Richburg, Miss.-75 rounds and the temperature 120°. When he had his hair cut, girls gathered up the coarse, black strands, treasured them in lockets...
However mixed the metaphor, Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish novelist, has taken arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing has not ended them. That royal monstrosity, the Hapsburg chin, apparently terrifies him not a bit: on the contrary, it incites him to retaliate with a jaw all his own. He sits tight in his French villa at Mentone and hurls investive against the border at the Spanish monarch...
...exception of one Billy Hamilton. Cobb is cut to a different last than Sisler. No decorous college graduate he, but a "sandlot" player, a man of fiery mettle. Often-ihc bleachers, true to the tradition of U. S. sportsmanship, have risen in enthusiastic uproar while Cobb stood shoving his jaw-fare nearer and nearer to an umpire's quivering countenance, uttering words whose import could only be guessed by his furious gestures. He, who has rightly been called "the greatest player in baseball," declares that this season will be his last...
...attacks you, heu, you kick him in the jaw so. It is all called 'coup de pied.' But it is dangerous, very dangerous. While you kick, so, to the jaw, he may kick your other leg. Then down you go. No, I prefer fencing to 'la box,' for there you have the mask and you have the glove. Above all, there is the head...