Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government-owned plants are already set to turn out boots & shoes, bricks, fish fillets, horsehide coats, woolens, boxes, type, lumber and power. The government can also supply fire and general insurance, looks forward to marketing a volcanic-ash kitchen cleaner, running a bus service and perhaps a Moose Jaw radio station. With Cadbury at the helm, this might be only the beginning...
...toasting an air force officer at an Aero Club plane christening. The officer responded, "I am Clito Bockel's brother," and knocked the publisher down. Livid with passion, Chateaubriand drew his pistol and, with indifferent aim grazed Bockel's cheek, shot his chief editorial writer in the jaw...
Diana Roosevelt, 18, Eleanor's niece and a George Washington U. freshman, failed to keep her feet in the stirrups at a horse show in Silver Springs, Md. Results: her own mount threw her, another kicked her, fractured her skull, broke her jaw. Hospital report: "Doing well...
...Walter Winchell: Hard to tell just what's biting this middle-aged ex-chorus boy. False shame of his race . . . may be at the root of it all. Anyhow ... he suffers from a chronic state of wild excitement, venom and perpetual motion of the jaw...
...script allows Miss Bergman to do very little except tensely beg her lover to remember his boyhood. By flexing his jaw muscles and narrowing his eyes, Peck does his best to register the fact that all is not well with him. But despite the drag of the psychoanalytical theme, Director Hitchcock's deft timing and sharp, imaginative camera work raise Spellbound well above the routine of Hollywood thrillers. Again & again he injects excitement into an individual scene with his manipulation of such trivia as a crack of light under a door, a glass of milk, or the sudden wailing...