Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land his dangerous, awkward swings, performing his specialty of chin-blocking. For two rounds Canzoneri handed out punishment. At the start of the third round Canzoneri whammed a left to the Berg chin-block, hit him under the heart with a right, then straightened his right up to the jaw. Berg stood up at the count of seven and then collapsed. When his seconds brought him to, he wept. Canzoneri, one of those fighters who demonstrate elaborate affection for a beaten opponent, also wept as he shook Berg's hand - from happiness. He was still lightweight champion...
...Lombardi, 6 ft. 3 in. high and 220 Ib. heavy with a huge nose and hands big enough to enwrap a baseball as though it were a walnut. The New York Yankees found a monster larger than Lombardi-Jim Weaver, a 6 ft. 7 in. pitcher with a woodchuck jaw. Easily the highest pitcher in the big leagues, Weaver has a good fast ball, fair control...
When that unnamed Gallery listener socked Terrible Tory Churchill one on the jaw (so to say), I actually cheered...
...implied, was responsible for the abandonment of its first stand in opposition to continuing constitutional prohibition as it now exists and the consequent substitution of a directly contrary conclusion. Lippmann interprets this as proof that the administration is adhering to the policy of nullification, where the drys have their jaw and the wets have, their liquor...
...white-crowned, red-faced onetime U. S. Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed was defending a Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, on trial for the murder of her husband (TIME, March 9). In the courtroom Photographer George Cauthen of the Journal Post made a "shot." Senator Reed. 69, slapped the jaw of Photographer Cauthen, 30. Next day appeared on the frontpage of the Journal Post an editorial headed "Techy Jim": ". . . If the former Senator were younger, the Journal Post would feel like firing George Cauthen . . . for not breaking his camera over his assailant's head. As it is, we think Photographer Cauthen...