Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illustrate the full meaning of these statistics, Dr. Ingalls submitted a picture of a boy whose mother had German measles during pregnancy. The boy was "fortunate," said Dr. Ingalls, to have escaped "the worst possible consequences." His poor vision has been largely corrected by glasses; his malformed jaw is being straightened by braces (though he will always have tooth defects) ; he has a hearing aid to overcome deafness; and the scrambling of his most vital blood vessels has been fixed by a "blue-baby" operation...
...heard in his first term that he failed to seize personal leadership in working with his party in Congress? With a wisp of exasperation, Ike diagrammed a wise man's views on leadership. "I am not one of the desk-pounding type that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him. he will stick. If I scare him, he will...
...more than anything he was curious. One day he went sneaking up the stairs to see if The Big Man was really there. At the top there was a door. Shaking in his bones, the little boy pushed. The door creaked. Marcelino's heart pounded; his jaw dropped as he stood and stared up at The Big Man. who seemed to be hanging on a wooden cross. There were nails in his hands and feet, and lines of pain in his face. All at once Marcelino was afraid no longer. "You look hungry." he said. "Wait...
...corduroy jacket walked over to us and asked, "Do you know parliamentary procedure?" We admitted that we did, and he asked us how to block the move for more members. "Move to adjourn," we whispered, and he did so. The president's jaw fell open about four inches. The vice president smiled ghoulishly, and voted for adjournment, but he was the only one besides corduroy jacket...
Dental. The average dental X ray now delivers 5 r., but this is only to the jaw: the "scatter" radiation reaching the gonads from this is a mere .005 r. in a man and .001 r. in a woman. It would thus take 2,000 X rays to deliver a presumably damaging 10 r. to a man's gonads. Even so, notes the Journal of the American Dental Association, the currently used 5-r. doses are unnecessary. In the same issue, Radiologist Lewis E. Etter of Pittsburgh tells dentists how (by using higher voltages, better filters, faster films, shorter...