Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object," would demand an explanation of it. Following this, he generally declined to object, while Mr. Cummins from the Chair murmured the oft-repeated formula, "Is-there-any-objection-the-Chair-hears-none-the-bill-is-passed." Very occasionally a man with a sleek white head and formidable jaw, James A. Reed of Missouri, rose to speak a few words
...mass. Georges' face, also, was smeared with blood from a cut over his eye, and his nose and lips had been sadly battered. Carp attempted something like an offensive in the first four rounds, especially in the fourth, when his famed right landed on Gibbons' jaw and rocked him for a moment. Gibbons, stung, concealed his trouble and soon counterattacked. From that point until the end the bout was more like a race than a fight. Carpentier, in full retreat, was near a knock-out in the ninth and tenth rounds. In the ninth he fell without being...
honors stood even. In the eighth, jabs became good honest punches and one from Frush caught "Gene" Criqui, his face already bloody and his eyes staring, on the jaw and he was counted out. After the fight, Danny Frush announced that he would sail to the U. S. and contest the world's featherweight championship with the present holder of the title, Johnny Dundee, who introduced him to astronomy in the ninth round of a fight which took place in 1922. The vanquished said, when interviewed at "his modest Montmartre mansion": "I am through. . . . No more fighting...
Romero had been battered mercilessly through four of the six rounds, however, and when he received the terrific right to the jaw and the flailing right back of the ear that ended the fight, his left eye was closed with a swelling that extended half way up his forehead and his lips were bleeding profusely. He had been knocked down three times and through a good part of the bout went careening drunkenly around the ring taking almost everything Johnson had to give...
...closed with his opponent; there was some fierce pumelling in which Townley suffered. Just before the end of the round Townley gave Carpentier the opening for which he had been waiting. Like a meteor in the night, the Frenchman's right shot out to the Englishman's jaw and the gong left him prone...