Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain H. L. D. Kirkham, Navy plastic surgeon, thought it over. When a man's eyes, ears or mouth are burned shut, when his nose or jaw is shot away, plastic surgery can usually restore the face. But the process sometimes takes seven or eight operations, weeks or months apart. Meanwhile the disfigured men usually prefer to stay out of sight in darkened wards. Jack Dawn's "inlays," however, could make many men appear normal between operations. Last week, under Kirkham's eye, a department of prosthesis* was being organized at the hospital. Besides designing new faces...
...private cars they had toured the Mexican sections, armed with sticks and weighted ropes, crashing into movie houses, looking for zoot-suited pachucos, the little Mexican-American youths. But they had found only a few dozen, and not all of them even wore zoot suits. They had broken the jaw of a 12-year-old boy. Said the boy, in the hospital...
Rugged, white-haired Andy Andrews had been one of the first U.S. commanders to see the future role of air power and, in particular, the possibilities in long-range bombing. More than once he had stuck out his square jaw against all rules of Army protocol and politics, and after 1935, when he organized the General Headquarters Air Force, he lived most of the time in hot water. His fight for air power finally became such a nuisance to more conservative officers that in 1939 Major General Andrews was removed from his high post, rusticated to Fort Sam Houston...
...stooping effigy of Jesus, with jointed arms hanging from a green cotton dress, had human hair on its head. A small naked statue, honored as a protector against syphilis, sat in a shrine made from an old oilcan. A portable sepulcher held a recumbent Christ, whose bloodstained jaw and neck could be moved puppetwise by strings. These crude but striking effigies formed part of an exhibition of Religious Folk Art of the Southwest which opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Quickly Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who had been honing up his snickersnee, slashed away, too : the rubber program was "a sock in the jaw for the 100-octane program, has already cost us 7,000,000 barrels that are gone forever...