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Word: jawed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heidt reached into his pocket and began counting out thousand-dollar bills. Contratto's jaw dropped. "I have $45.000 worth of liquor in the cellar." he demurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Money Maestro | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...Boston, a six-year-old boy tumbled off a porch into a rosebush, was rushed to a hospital. There Surgeon Richard H. Miller probed a hole in the boy's jaw, found the broken end of a rose cane, began to pull it. Out came a rush of blood. The surgeon quickly shoved the stick back. Then he cut open the boy's neck down to the collarbone, found that the cane had gone through the jugular vein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rugged Boy | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...liner with a gaping hole. The Empress sank with 1,024 passengers. Congratulating himself on not having repeated the captain's mistake, Dr. Miller tied off the vein, hauled the carotid artery out of the way and pulled out the stick, which ran from the boy's jaw down through his neck and chest to the fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rugged Boy | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Stanley Hubbard, KSTP's sport-loving president, had hatched the scheme, while itching to get into the woods last spring. He rustled the 1,090 fish (sunfish, bass, walleyed pike, crappies) from the state conservation department. Marked with numbered, metal jaw tags, the fish were planted well before the season opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fish Story | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...tagged have been hooked). Richard Lavesque, nine-year-old polio victim, walked from his home for the first time in two years, took 35? worth of equipment to the edge of White Bear Lake, landed a tagged sunfish. War Vet Elmer Hauge poled a pike at Pequot Lakes-its jaw tag was the lucky number 1,000. And I. O. Bane of Deer River, who caught a tagged fish on June 23, returned to the same hole last week and landed another. His present problem: what to do with two batches of prizes, including 104 cases of Pepsi-Cola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fish Story | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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