Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game of leapfrog all over the table; making a ball jump off the table, roll about on the floor, bounce back on the table. Peterson is the performer who has made the fabulous "impossible shot" possible. The cue ball and two object balls are jammed together in the corner jaw. A brilliantly executed force masse puts such heavy "English"* (spinning motion) on the cue ball that it clears a path, spins to the side rail, reverses back to the end rail, where it loops several times and meets the second object ball near the corner for a completed three-cushion...
...Army dentist joined the unit. He was no help on most wounds and did not know how to scrub up. "He washed his hands just like any dentist does be fore he sticks his thumb in your mouth." But when Seagrave got a puzzling jaw case, the dentist stepped forward. "I let him go to it with a sigh of relief. By George, that fellow certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled...
...Allen brazenly replied. He got his certificate, and as a temporary major he led a battalion of the goth Division into battle at St. Mihiel and Aincreville, won a citation and a Silver Star "for distinguished and exceptional gallantry," got a bullet through the jaw and mouth...
...refreshing change from the normal officialese of war, Moscow added: "Having received a punch in the jaw, the crooks from Hitler's headquarters now put their tail between their legs and begin to yell that "allegedly it is not they, the Germans, who conduct the offensive, but the Soviet troops, and that consequently it was not their attempt to capture Kursk that failed in the first three days of heavy battles, but the attempt of our troops to break through the German defenses. ... It is too early to formulate a final conclusion...
Slight, shy, with clear brown eyes and a strong jaw, the 45-year-old prelate has one of the world's minor sees. There are only three hospitals, three parishes, two elementary schools, 400 Catholics. Of Iceland's 120,000 people, 94,000 are Lutherans. Like those in Denmark, they are High-Church, wear Mass vestments, etc. Some 20,000 Icelanders profess no faith at all. They live on isolated farms, so church-going is a good deal of a chore...