Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glance at these memorials, Joseph Stalin could see Russia's strategic condition. By a glance into a mirror, he could examine in a moment Russia's morale. He would see there two small, tired eyes under heavy lids; bristly upstanding greyish hair; a formidable, determined jaw. He would see weariness, and peasant cunning. He would see a very tough, strong face to go with a tough, strong past...
Playing against South Carolina three weeks ago, Sinkwich had his jaw broken on one side, cracked on the other. With his jaws wired, his chin in a sling and his breathing so impaired that he required trips to the sidelines for whiffs of oxygen, Sinkwich played for three quarters of last fortnight's game against Mississippi, threw a pass that tied the score, 14-to-14. Last week, against Columbia, Sinkwich played for nearly 60 minutes, scored the touchdown that licked the Lions, 7-to-3. "He can do everything but bite into a steak," moaned Columbia...
...Italian battleships, sir," I says. 'I can count, you bloody fool.' he says. Shortly was more Eyeties. 'Eighteen cruisers, sir.' I says. 'Dammit, man, I'm not blind,' he says. So then I decided I'd better hold my jaw, and shortly when there was more Eyeties I didn't say a word. 'How many of their destroyers off there?' he sways. 'Twenty-seven, sir,' I says. So he bloody near blew me off the bridge for not tellin...
Franklin Roosevelt smiled and thanked him. The little rotund, stooped, pink-faced, bulldog-jawed Britisher, his visored cap askew over the remnants of sandy yellow hair that once was red, stood beaming, like a deceptively diffident cherub. The tall, easy-mannered American, with a jaw just as stubborn, stood with his huge shoulders thrown back, his head cocked on one side, as it always is when he meets something new and important...
...overworked jaw of Leon Henderson, busy trying to talk prices down and a price control bill through Congress, President Roosevelt gave help this week. Invoking the amended Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 (which previously had served as a basis for freezing Axis funds) the President issued an executive order clamping down hard on consumer credit...