Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poised near the starting gate, awaiting her turn, the girl showed only one touch of tension: her classically lean features were set firmly as she clenched her jaw...
...himself once again, and was caught stealing a handful of potatoes. The Russians convicted the P.W. and gave him 25 years at hard labor. Schleicher went to work driving rivets. He spoiled a rivet and a guard hit him with a chain. It broke Schleicher's nose, jaw and-ankle. The Russians sent him to a hospital, and when his ankle refused to mend, they shipped him home. Schleicher got back to Germany in 1948 to find that his wife had remarried and that he was officially dead. He retired to another hospital to have his leg amputated...
...been a lot in the papers about how he made $68,000 in ten months on a $1,000 investment. In making the killing, he was dealing with a man Truman had criticized for attempts to use influence in Washington. Would McKinney be asked to resign? Truman's jaw shot out and his voice crackled. McKinney, he said, suits him down to the ground. The President isn't going to pull the rug out from under McKinney just because something happened that the newspapers didn't like...
...Beachcomber John Russell and his mangy crew reckon without the courage of Mailman Jerome Courtland, the awshucks hero who plunges under water to wrestle alligators hand-to-jaw when the safety of Heroine Terry Moore is at stake. And they fail to figure on the cunning of Dude Robert Cummings, a polysyllabic confidence man who comes from the North to swindle the Floridians, and stays on to save them. Whenever Cummings is in a tight spot, he reaches to his watch chain for a pistol the size of a tie-clip and plugs his assailant with a Lilliputian slug...
...last week with a few final boos and catcalls. Among them: ¶The shaky Missouri Valley Conference seemed on the verge of breaking up for good over the case of Drake Halfback Johnny Bright. When conference officials refused to take any action in the slugging that broke his jaw (TIME, Nov. 5 et. seq.), Drake withdrew from the conference, was promptly followed by Bradley University (which has three players awaiting sentence in the basketball fix scandal...