Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delivery. In San Jose, Calif., a super-puncher punched Louis Barff on the jaw, dislocated Louis Barff...
Week's beginning had found Mr. Lewis with his jaw jutting, haughty as an old boar. Thrice he had rejected the President's appeals to call off his strike (TIME, Nov. 3). But he agreed to meet with his old friend and enemy, Myron Taylor, to talk about...
...Duce jutted his jaw and was silent. Three times the crowd gave the usual ovation, then left Benito Mussolini free to ponder whether Fascism was likely to pass on, pass out, or pass away...
That evening, broadcasting to the nation in his Navy Day speech, the President clipped Mr. Lewis a glancing blow on his jutting jaw, declared: "Our national will must speak from every assembly line-yes, from every coal mine. ... It cannot be hampered by the selfish obstruction of a small but dangerous minority of industrial managers . . . [or] by the selfish obstruction of a small but dangerous minority of labor leaders who are a menace to the true cause of labor itself, as well as to the nation as a whole." Whether or not John Lewis would eventually give heed...
...graduated first in his class from Woolwich Royal Military Academy. Son of a major general, he knew his war business, went to France in World War I as a sapper. There he received a chin wound which later inspired Arabs to nickname him Abu Huneik (Man with the Small Jaw). In 1920 he was sent to Mesopotamia; he has remained there, except for a few short trips, ever since. Before World War II, if he was not living quietly with his wife in a native-style house at Amman, capital of Trans-Jordan, he was roaming the desert with Bedouins...