Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went among the poor to show them his interest. The pressure on him to order murderous but militarily wasteful retaliation on Berlin was tremendous, but he-held himself in. On one of his tours the dispossessed shouted: "What about reprisals? These were our homes. What about Berlin?" The Churchill jaw set grimly, the underlip went out, and the Prime Minister growled: "Don't worry, they'll get it back." Later one of his colleagues said: "Churchill is a very full-blooded gentleman. Hitler has often mentioned the shortness of his patience, but Churchill's patience, as well...
...continued on third page following) call him Abu-el-Hanak ("The Man With The Jaw"). He won their admiration and confidence by leading bands of Iraqi and Bedouin tribesmen against raiders from Saudi Arabia in 1924. Quiet, studious, slender, stooped, Major Glubb spoke Arabic even better than Lawrence did, was believed to have even more influence than Lawrence...
...weak jaw, heavy mouth, bristling mustache, popping eyes and full cheeks of Rumania's King Carol II make up a naturally pleasant, if weak, face. But the face did not wear a pleased expression last week. His country-already buffeted, squeezed, threatened, with Bessarabia snipped off by Russia and Naziism clamped on by Germany-was still at dead centre of a pressure play...
...chin which Tony's disgruntled brother had caused by slinging a beer glass at him two nights before. By the seventh round Galento was spouting blood, reeling drunkenly, his eyes closed, his head throbbing where he had landed with a running, broad butt at Baer's jaw. When the bell rang for the eighth round, Galento sat on his stool, called it quits...
...Congo natives made ideal patients. They endured pain "without a murmur," were "obedient," had "a strange resistance to post-operative infection even in the absence of ... ordinary sanitary precautions," were delighted with any operative results, no matter how gruesome. A man with a balloon-like tumor of the upper jaw had a large wedge of bone cut out. He called for a mirror and "spent most of the day admiring himself...