Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth led with a crack at the Germans' Adriatic jaw. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army followed with a smash at the Tyrrhenian side. Both blows were aimed ultimately at Rome, where the Allies had once hoped to be before Christmas...
...body had been very positively identified. Discovered in Schiller Park by Chicago police, the murdered, badly burned corpse was little more than a skeleton, but a Negro woman was certain it was her missing husband. A dentist was equally certain that he recognized the jaw. The woman claimed her husband's insurance...
Around the Sub Base at Pearl Harbor, "Mush" Morton and the Wahoo were a legend. Mush, Kentucky-born, was a solid man with a shock of blond hair, a wrestler's shoulders and a jaw like a boulder. The Wahoo was a lean, sinister submarine...
...Army D.S.C.; the Wahoo, a Presidential unit citation. In two historic patrols Mush and the Wahoo had sunk 69,000 tons of the Emperor's shipping. Among the U.S. submarine fleet, which has sunk altogether some 355 Jap ships, Wahoo was a high scorer. Sticking his jaw out, Mush would say modestly: "We were lucky enough to see a lot of Jap ships and when you see a lot you're apt to sink...
Everett Pearl, an adagio dancer, won a divorce from her partner, who, she charged, was too realistic in his tossing. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Robert Worthington won a divorce after complaining that her husband had nagged her when she had her broken jaw wired shut...