Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about on a farm some 50 miles from Johannesburg in 1938, bright-eyed Robert Broom found the left side of a manlike skull, a mandible, the distal end of a humerus, the proximal end of an ulna, some finger bones. In 1941 Broom & friends found part of a lower jaw. In September Broom found an anklebone. Last week there was still no evidence of murder...
...Pershing had other ideas. The American forces must fight as a unit, he said, and set his jaw. They could train better under their own men; they would not become infected with the Allies' pessimism. A victorious American Army would give the nation prestige at the peace table, he thought. The U.S. must keep its own military tradition; there would be other wars. Foch, Clemenceau, Lloyd George bickered and bargained, Wilson and Baker backed their man up. Pershing won his point. The American forces trained and fought as a unit...
...good airway for breathing-bandage should press the chin, the tongue should be kept out of the way (if a patient cannot control his tongue, it can be fastened to the clothing by a single stitch through it). Lives may be saved if men wounded in the lower jaw are kept either upright or lying face downward. Recumbent they may choke to death...
...fast-moving army might yet swerve south to help Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin seal the narrow Crimean bottleneck. If these two able generals succeeded, the German forces in the Crimea and Kuban-perhaps as many as 300,000 men- would find themselves trapped within a huge nutcracker, one jaw pressing from the Ukraine, the other from the Caucasus. Russia's Black Sea Fleet, based on recaptured Novorossiisk, would add to the Wehrmacht's woes...
...week's end MacArthur's troops seized the first prize of the coordinated campaign. Australian troops swam a jungle river to make a surprise assault and capture strategic Salamaua airfield. North of Lae, against the other jaw of the closing Allied trap, the enemy counterattacked weakly. Mr. Okuda's people appeared to be growing weary of the war in New Guinea...