Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Episcopal General Convention of 1943 set a compulsory retirement age of 72 for bishops, Bishop Manning, then 77, set his jaw, insisted that the convention's ruling could not be retroactive. He promised his parishioners that he would "continue to serve you as your bishop as long as I am given sufficient health and strength." Three years later, declining in health and full of years, he resigned...
...stores, was found slain today in the fur storage vault of the company's main office in Cambridge. Chief of Detectives Patrick J. Ready said the elderly Shea was apparently ambushed inside the building, forced to open the vault which contained money and furs, and then slugged on the jaw...
...next day. Scores of men came running and crawling through the woods, shot it out with the Preskitts for two hours. One intruder was carried away with a shattered jaw, his chest and abdomen peppered with buckshot. The Preskitts finally gave in, agreed to close down their mine until "an agreement" could be reached. But other independents kept operating. "We're going to stay in operation unless we're shot out," roared one owner...
Sabath countered with a short left to the jaw, then a short right cross with real steam behind it. New York's 200-lb. James Delaney stepped between them and stopped the battle before the bewildered sergeant at arms could parade the mace, the traditional symbol of law & order in the House...
Canadian Pacific (20th Century-Fox) digs up a job worthy of Randolph Scott: building a railroad to link Canada's coasts. Troubleshooter Scott squares his jaw against villainous trappers, savage redskins and the Canadian Rockies (in Cinecolor). With the love of two good women (Jane Wyatt and Newcomer Nancy Olson), he finally gets the trains running, but not until Canadian Pacific has dallied at every whistle stop on an over-traveled, one-track story line...