Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon itself. The attitude was best symbolized by a blue-clad West Pointer who wears the four stars of the Chief of Staff of the U.S Air Force-a broad-shouldered airman with grey curly hair parted down the middle, black eyebrows, a strong nose and a big jaw-named Nathan Farragut Twining...
...photographs, where his bland coloring makes for a washed-out picture. (Before he makes his TV broadcasts, the makeup men have to pencil in hairline and eyebrows.) But in full color Ike Eisenhower emerges as a warm study of a man of 63 years, ruddy of complexion from the jaw to the top of his broad, bald head, with the ruddiness contrasted by blue eyes, blond-whitish eyebrows and thin wisps of greying blond hair. The pictures on the following pages were taken at the White House and in Augusta, Ga., during the period when the President was working...
Reaction. In Buffalo, charging third-degree assault, Mrs. Arnold Kleindienst testified that, after she shoved a spoonful of hot cauliflower into her dozing husband's mouth, he "exploded from under the bedclothes," punched her in the jaw, mocked her down and placed his foot on her neck "with considerable force...
...theory that man originated in Africa got a boost when a nearly complete lower jaw of Australopithecus prometheus was found at Makapansgat in the Transvaal this month. Anthropologists now have most of the skull parts (from different individuals) of a "proto-man" who probably lived one million years ago, along with saber-toothed tigers and giant hyenas. Professor Raymond A. Dart of Witwatersrand University gave Prometheus his name because some of his bones contained free carbon, which indicates that they had been burned, and hints at the use of fire...
...have enough fluorine to be extremely ancient. The skull fragments may be 50,000 years old, the age of many other human bones found throughout Europe. The jawbone, according to the scientists' report in the British Museum Bulletin, fared even worse: it proved to be the jaw of a modern ape, probably an orangutan, which died at the age of ten. It had been artificially colored with potassium bichromate and an iron salt to make it look old, and its teeth had been pared to make them look more or less human. Unanswered still was the question...