Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have originated in Bagdad) are said to resemble early Assyrian wall sculptures. Siegfried, 44, is son of Sir Edward Sassoon, Anglo-Indian merchant whose father-in-law was Baron Gustave de Rothschild. Siegfried's cousin Philip was Under-Secretary for Air. Tall, bony, loosely built, he has a big jaw, nose, ears, hands; speaks usually in a slow, troubled voice. After his country gentleman's education at Marlborough and The House (Christ Church, Oxford), he spent his time mostly hunting, playing cricket, tennis, music, printed a few poems privately. During the War he emerged as one of England's most...
Keys for Cages. Mr. Bevin is succinctly said by his admirers to have a "good jaw." He began by jawing the Congress into adoption of his resolution that the Government should begin to pay old age pensions to all workers at 60. Then, with the snowball of approval rolling his way he launched fiery onslaught against what Europe calls "rationalization" and America "Fordization...
Last victory of the week for the Bevin jaw was the Congress's adoption without a dissenting vote of his resolution demanding that the Labor Government overhaul the Department of National Health. "Scandalous conditions exist!" he cried. "In the winter poor people have to wait so long in queues at the free clinics that they catch worse colds than the ones they came to be cured of. . . . They are constantly made to feel the humiliation of their poverty . . . supercilious doctors . . . shame...
Meanwhile whales figured in news despatches from both coasts. In Shelton, Wash., lumberport, a large black whale appeared one 2 a. m. Mill hands hooked a hawser around its jaw, towed it to deep water. Thereupon it rushed to another part of the bay, was eventually harpooned. In Dover, N. H., a whale became marooned on a mud-flat, was shot by local police. Editorially, the New York World denounced this act, pointed out that while a live whale is no asset to a community, a dead one is a distinct liability...
...idea was to begin a new campaign by beating Berg, a junior welterweight, then Al Singer, lightweight champion, and so work down to his own featherweight class. Looking thoughtful and serious, he jabbed Berg with sewing-machine lefts and crossed him with hard right-hand punches to the jaw. The cockney came in milling and tied him up, battered at his ribs in the clinches without getting past his countering elbows. Whenever Chocolate was free to box he scored points but Berg kept on top of him aggressively. Liking Chocolate for his buoyancy, his nerve, and the crafty speed...