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Word: jawed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soldiers who have fought under him say that when they knew they were to talk with him, they would write down what they planned to say, memorize it, and then be unable to speak when they looked at that calm, mysterious face with the tender eyes and jaw of iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: The Incident Becomes a Crisis | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...misstep that would bring Kroener within reach of his huge hands. Once the gorilla caught his keeper's arm, yanked it through the bars, bit it so savagely that Kroener was crippled for life. On one occasion Gargantua broke Kroener's nose; once he shattered his jaw. Kroener's strange devotion never faltered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Dick & Buddy | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...read Congress has passed a bill to regulate the measurement of jaws for false teeth [TIME, March 30]. I am just wondering if there ... is ... any prohibition in the law against the development of the jaw bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1942 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...coat lapels, shook him like an angry bear. Meyer's pince-nez shattered on the floor. Then Meyer, 66, 5 ft. 10, 186½lb., who took boxing lessons for two years from Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett, came up with a haymaker aimed straight at the Jones jaw. It missed-and other guests pulled the two heavyweights apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Gets Ruffled | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...swift, powerhouse right to the Jaw knocked out Johnny Bullitt in the 135-pound quarter-finals of the National Amateur Boxing championships at the Boston Garden last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Champ K.O.'d In Quarterfinals of N. A. B. | 4/15/1942 | See Source »

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