Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Ickes' thick jaw muscles bulged angrily. What with local real estate opposition to slum clearance projects, he had had trouble enough trying to get his housing program started. His ace-in-the-hole was FHC, an investment agency which put the Government squarely into the real estate business. Back to Comptroller McCarl went a tart letter taking exception to Mr. McCarl's legal interpretation...
...Though reputedly favoring another man for the job, Mayor LaGuardia was chiefly interested in getting a superintendent who would help him push through a plan for reforming the city's schools. When he heard of the Board's selection of Harold George Campbell the Mayor cocked his jaw, remarked grimly: "I hope he'll cooperate. ... He should cooperate. . . . He will have to co-operate." Said Superintendent-designate Campbell: "It goes without saying. . . ." A past master of co-operation must be a Scotch-Presbyterian-Republican who could rise to power and a $20,000-a-year...
...synonyms. Publisher Funk's list necessarily omitted the coiners of such plain and useful words as "washout," "lousy," "okay," "beat it," "razz." Last week the fatherly New York Times which never permits slang to appear in its columns commented thus: "Good slang is 'sock on the jaw' and poor slang is 'economic Neanderthals' both from the collection of General Hugh Johnson. The first is as near to the soil as corned beef & cabbage; the second is recherché. Ninety-nine per cent of the accredited slang inventions are recherche...
...cent. Faced with severe international competition in the shrinking world market, Italy is forced, says Mussolini, to lower costs drastically. And this, thanks to Fascism, she will be able to do: there are no trade unions to block the cut in wages. Labor will take it on the jaw, and if it does not enjoy it, will at any rate accept it with the customary vivas for II Duce...
...took the jury just 51 minutes to sweep Wexler's story into the discard, bring in a verdict of guilty on all counts. Wexler's jaw sagged and he gulped hard as the judge fined him $80,000, sentenced him to ten years...