Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May two blackamoors stumbled over something horrid at the edge of Hornbecker's Pond near North Haverstraw, N. Y. It was a partially decomposed human head. One eye had been punched out, half of the nose severed, the lower jaw slashed. Last July a torso was found in Congers Lake, six miles away. Head and body belonged to the same person whom police surgeons described as an Italian or Jew about 45 years old with curly greying hair and the habit of smoking a pipe on the left side of his mouth. There were no other clews...
...simple majority. For answer 15th Vice President William D. Mahon of the street railway employes' union shortly declared that he was convinced of C. I. O.'s guilt, and Tenth Vice President William L. Hutcheson of the carpenters' union, whom Mr. Lewis punched in the jaw at Atlantic City last year, announced that his members wanted "Action." If the C. I. O. unions were not ousted, the carpenters would quit the Federation...
Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported a cure for some kinds of facial neuralgia by "repositioning" the sufferer's jaws. Dr. James Bray Costen, assistant professor of otolaryngology at St. Louis' Washington University Medical School, discovered that when the back teeth are extracted or wear down the mandibular joints which hinge the lower jaw to the skull are pulled askew by the powerful muscles of the face, press abnormally upon facial nerves, cause facial neuralgia, headache, earache, burning tongue. Dr. Costen cures those pains by repositioning the jaws with caps over eroded molars, false...
...photographer pushed his camera to the ambulance window for a last snapshot. Henry Morgan's face paled with fury, his hands clenched, but he made no move. A Morgan estate guard hit the photographerin the jaw. The ambulance sped away to the rigid privacy of the Morgan estate...
...East Hampton, Conn., when Mrs. Henry Schleidt tried to tuck Henry Schleidt Jr., 3, into bed, he playfully kicked up his feet, fractured her jaw in three places...