Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, the 280-lb. Angel took on his first comer, Luigi Bacigalupi, 275-lbs. ringside. In the Boston Arena, 7,000 wrestling fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference, hooked his stubby...
...just a farmer." Down on the Bridgeboro, N. J. farm is where Joe got his Galahad strength. Last week he got up at 5:30 every morning and worked till dusk pruning the farm's 7,000 apple and peach trees. But Joe is no hang-jaw hayseed. At the University of Pennsylvania his marks averaged...
...always, than his body was yet capable of. He suffered also under a strong, sadistic elder brother, Harvey. Among other misfortunes he: fell into a well, was buried under a gravel slide, got one foot frozen, had the end of his thumb sliced by Harvey (deliberate torture), got his jaw knocked half in two by an ax (Harvey again, an accident, no apology). Occasionally a cowboy stopped for a few days - most of them left lice -or a river baptism relieved the monotony: "As the women waded into the river, gasping with every breath, their long wrappers floated about their...
...wise pouches under Mr. Taylor's sad, deepset, clear-green eyes are there by no accident; his stubborn, pugnacious nose, his mailbox-slit mouth, his underslung jaw are all testimonials of the strength and judicial balance of his mind. And good, dead Cardinal William Mundelein of Chicago would be happy to know that the idea he planted with Franklin Roosevelt in 1936-a restoration of relations with the Vatican since it is now a temporal State, not just a religion-has flourished thus solidly in the person of Tycoon Taylor...