Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soft-snarling men stuck a revolver against her apron. Mrs. O'Brien put her hand in her apron pocket where she kept her key ring -and a crucifix. She clutched the crucifix and uttered a silent, urgent prayer. Then she swung her fist to the gunman's jaw...
...within two years Gene Krupa was beating it out in Midwestern bands. He rode to fame with Benny Goodman's orchestra, battering frenetically and taking elaborate syncopated cadenzas. He devised three facial expressions to fit his moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like a fielder trying to catch a fly ball with the sun in his eyes." The No. 3 expression, unclassifiable, was for moments of hair-tossing, gum-chomping abandon, during which Drummer Krupa yelled over & over (he said): "Lyonnaise potatoes and some pork chops...
...fans began to wonder whether Simple Simon might last it out. Round after round Simon still stood on his feet, and the crowd went wild. How much punishment could this behemoth take? In the 13th round they had their answer. Dazed, dead-armed, after paralyzing rights to the jaw had floored him a third and a fourth time, the challenger suddenly turned his back on the champion, staggered over to the ropes. Louis, perplexed, stood stock-still, calmly watched the referee award him the fight on a technical knockout...
...Horatio, Lord Nelson (Laurence Olivier), and the frivolous Emma, Lady Hamilton (Vivien Leigh), wife of Britain's Minister to the Court of Naples. Ostensibly, this British-bred, Hollywood-made film tries to tell it in epic tones. Actually, with the subtlety of a sock on the jaw, it is more concerned with informing U. S. cinemaudiences of the parallel between Britain's struggle against Napoleonic tyranny and her current tangle with Hitler...
...concert artists who belong to the American Guild of Musical Artists. Last summer Boss Petrillo told these superior gentry to join his A. F. of M. before Labor Day, or be barred from playing with union men, making records, going on the air. A. G. M. A. set its jaw, went to court. In a series of trials, Petrillo finally won one, set a new deadline: March 1. Last week, just before the deadline, the Department of Justice came to A. G. M. A.'s rescue. It announced that a Federal grand jury would investigate charges that Petrillo...