Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mark of the Thibaults is a strong, blocky jaw and a flair for dominance. At first there are three-Jacques, his older brother Antoine, their widowed father. Father Oscar is a pious, pompous, severe, uncomprehending and walled-in old man who hides in his heart a mortal fear of death, who snatches at straws of immortality by devoting himself to good works. Jacques is a rebellious, brooding, high-strung adolescent, destined to seek feverishly the meaning of his own life. Antoine is an egoistic, hard-minded doctor, devoted to his work and proud of being a man of action. Theirs...
...fast enough last week. The fall of Bengasi was brought about by swift execution of the familiar tactic of the giant pincer. While the main Australian force chased Italians along the coast, a mechanized force branched across the hump of Cyrenaica to form the pincer's nether jaw. This body, meeting little resistance other than a sandstorm which choked carburetors as well as throats, headed for a spot about 50 miles south of Bengasi-just below Soluch, the southern terminus of a short railway spur which runs down the coast from Bengasi. The British force straddled the highway...
...Italians who reached Bengasi did not pause even for a last sentimental look at the white houses, the long rows of mimosa, the great marble fagade of the Berenice Hotel. They beat it to the south in headlong flight-only to come smack up against the southern jaw of the pincer. With claustrophobic fury they threw tanks, field guns, even suicide troops with gasoline bombs, against the British ring of mobile steel. But the British held, and soon the Italians gave...
...rejected by Army physicians in New York City. Dogged John Shea hotfooted it to a dentist's office, held his mouth open for ten and a half hours while the dentist drilled and filled. Out came three teeth; in went two bridges, four fillings, five crowns. Next day jaw-sore Patient Shea smiled a false-toothy smile for Army physicians, jumped happily on the train that took his outfit to camp...
...keeping the minority virtuous, he had purged so many revolutionary bigwigs that the little wigs, in self-defense decided to purge him. On the 9th Thermidor (July 27, 1794), his comrades outlawed Robespierre, seized and bound him. The fallen dictator lay on the floor of the Commune, his jaw shattered by a poorly aimed bullet...