Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likewise saw it waving its head near a rock. It was, in fact, said Major Langley, scratching its neck on the barnacles-after which, with something like a grin of gratification, it swashed off toward Chatham Island. It had, said Major Langley, a shaggy head with a long prognathous jaw and a face like a camel...
...will now hear from the president of the United Mine Workers of America." Lewis, John L. Everyone in the hall knew the squat, bullnecked, heavy-pawed figure that swaggered out to the rostrum. There was a glint of arrogance in his grey eyes. He jutted his heavy jaw. Dramatically he introduced himself in the idiom of the true labor leader: "The name is Lewis-John L." When the titters had died away Lewis, John L. began to read in a surprisingly soft, resonant voice one of the best labor speeches ever made before NRA-a speech perfect in grammar, literate...
...first chilly winds of Autumn whipped around the Tammany wigwam early this September the Sachems within huddled about the fire and speculated gloomily on the prospects for the winter. It looked bad. There was no doubt that Chief Mammoth-jaw O'Brien was not the man the tribe had thought. The magic of his thunder-bearing oratory was losing force, and his latest attempts at balancing the budget had revealed a dismaying lack of biceptual muscle, as well as nearly causing a village riot. In the next election it was all too possible that a revolt might swing the tide...
...Boooooo!" the brokers' clerks shouted back. The Mayor's mighty jaw clamped shut. He grew red in the face and faltered in his waving. A halt in the parade brought the brokers to a stop before the stand...
...Haverford, Pa., Frank A. McClatchy, rich real estate broker, took two men who said they wanted to buy a home. The minute they stepped inside the "customers" seized Broker McClatchy, bent his arms behind his back, shouted: "You're kidnapped!" McClatchy flung them off, punched one in the jaw, the other in the stomach. "Give him the works!" cried one of the snatchers, and a pistol bullet pierced McClatchy's chest, buried itself in his belly. The kidnappers fled. McClatchy died four days later in a Philadelphia hospital...