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Word: jawed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fear & Terrorism. The first dramatic moment of the dramatic session came when Matteo Matteotti, 25, son of Italy's famous anti-Fascist martyr (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), moved to the speaker's microphone. His wide mouth and slightly jutting jaw firmly set, his deep-set eyes solemn and stern, young Matteotti charged Nenni's party leadership with spreading "fear and terrorism," and denounced the Congress as illegal. The delegates rose and screamed: "Degenerate son!" But Matteotti doggedly finished his job, handed the presiding officer what he called documentation proving Nenni's terroristic methods, and calmly walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Split | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...missing on the first raid. About the time he gets the bad news, along comes the Old Man himself, with a delegation of junketing Congressmen. The Old Man, famed Major General Kane, is so unnerved by circumstances that he almost forgets to put out his well-known jaw for photographers. A noisy Southern Congressman in yellow shoes, lavender shirt and white felt hat is highly indignant at the losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High-Echelon Follies | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...Gruner, 33, a Jew with a bullet-crushed jaw and the corundum-hard eyes of an Irgun Zvai Leumi triggerman, stood before a Jerusalem Military Court. He was charged with taking part in a raid against a British police station last April. Asked to testify, he defiantly refused: "I am a soldier fighting for Zionism; I should be treated as a prisoner of war." Gruner was sentenced to death as a murderer. But what happened in Palestine last week looked more like war than common murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Fire & Blood | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Fullback Bill Paschal was out with a week-old broken jaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football or Mayhem? | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Loss of Face. In Tulsa, Okla., Traffic Patrolman Ned Fanning blew his whistle at a woman driver, got angry when she "made an awful face," made one right back, threw his jaw out of place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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