Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upper jaw of the Soviet crunch reached far behind Minsk and cut the railroad to Vilna; the lower jaw snapped the trunk line to Warsaw near Baranowicze. Minsk fell, trapping an estimated 150,000 more Germans. Swarms of Red bombers blasted the roads to Vilna and Koenigsberg, to Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk...
Then he found a still larger jaw, the biggest ever discovered, which was unmistakably human. It was apparently the most primitive truly human fossil ever discovered. Koenigswald named it Meganthropus palaeojavanicus (Big Man of Ancient Java). Meganthropus seemed to have been about the size of a big male gorilla...
...Back. The scandal was enough to send other oilmen creeping into private life. But not Sinco. He thrust out Iris jaw belligerently, and started to come back. Overnight he made $3,000,000 in a pool in Sinclair stock. He built an 800-mile pipeline from Drumright, Okla. to Chicago, and netted a company profit of $28,000,000 by selling it to his archrival, Standard Oil of Indiana. Shortly after, he made a deal with John D. Rockefeller Jr., who had fired Standard's Colonel Robert Stewart for his part in the Dome scandal, to merge his fast...
...desk sat Wayne Taylor; at Wayne Taylor's right sat lank, birdlike Attorney General Francis Biddle, who had flown in from Washington at 4 a.m., rushed to Ward's after an hour's sleep at the Drake Hotel. His eyes were red-rimmed; his jaw...
...much of a homebody despite her appearance, used to make all her own clothes, cooks gigantic dinners of arroz con polio for massive gatherings of friends. The Reyes have an eight-year-old son named Angel. When asked his name, he invariably doubles up his fists, juts out his jaw and growls "Angel, wanna make somethin' of it?" Raul speaks perfect American, smokes big cigars and worries about his diminutive wife's health. To keep her strength up, he feeds her a pint of oatmeal every morning and insists that she take One-A-Day vitamin pills twice...