Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citizen Fixit. In Teaneck, N.J., John Daddy, 50 and suspicious, watched a man open an automobile door and take out a package, expostulated, got no explanation, promptly fractured his jaw. In police court. Daddy learned that the man was Cornelius Graham, the car's owner...
...most anything, he broke his own league record. The Yankees' five-game spurt which made them the team to beat in the American League-despite the Chicago White Sox's five straight wins-did not even raise a smile on Joe McCarthy's square jaw. Said poker-faced Joe: "My team's better than last year. We'll win the pennant...
...other end; then a San Francisco broadcast coming over the phone line made clear to him why his informant could find no words. A colonel came in. The MP just stared at him. The colonel stared back. After a moment the MP blurted two words. The colonel's jaw dropped; he hesitated; then without a word he walked away...
...newsreels, the well-fleshed, strong face had begun to look wasted and faintly wistful, and sometimes the firm jaw quivered unaccountably. The ringing radio voice seemed now & then to drag with weariness. These were bad signs, people felt uneasily, but they also felt that the doctors and the White House insiders must know...
...unfaithfulness to his overpublicized "fiancee." When he goes to a newsreel theater to see what they have made of him ("Hero of the Week," the billboard bellows) and can't keep his opinions on his stomach, an infuriated civilian turns in the dark and cracks him on the jaw...