Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a rowboat threshing in the water about 100 ft. offshore. Watched and tampered every day of his seven years, Lucason had never swum before. But when Trainer Kennedy cried, "Go get him." the champion plunged in, swam out to the boy, gripped his clothes in a long narrow jaw, towed him safely to shore...
...work so impressed Coroner E. T. Oram that he encouraged police to hold an Irishman named Brady on a charge of murder because Smith was last seen when he left his home to go fishing with Brady. "Keep your mouth shut!" lawyers advised, and Pat Brady set his Irish jaw. Last week before the Commonwealth's High Court Brady's counsel cited a basic maxim of Anglo-Saxon law, argued: "There can be no inquest, much less a trial for murder, without a corpus delicti and one tattooed human arm disgorged by a shark is not a body...
...that henceforth they were to be ardent Royalists hot to restore Georgios II. Moving fast last week Republican General Panayotakos surrounded Athens with troops he thought he could trust, burst into a Cabinet meeting. Instantly the Royalist War Minister ordered him arrested, a Greek sentry stabbed him in the jaw, and he would have been shot down like a dog had not his brother, a Republican Deputy, given him a push and received in his hand the bullet intended for General Panayotakos. The wound festered and the hand had to be amputated while Premier & War Minister suppressed riots up & down...
...lasted two minutes, 38 seconds. In them, Doyle had time to fetch Baer one resounding whack on the jaw. Baer had time to hit Doyle below the belt and then, because New York Commission rules prevent referees from stopping a fight on a foul, to floor his opponent twice and win by a technical knockout...
Setting his square jaw, Governor Allred thereupon refused two more appeals from convicted murderers...