Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blow Hot, Blow Cold. In Memphis, four months after Johnny Williams broke his wife's jaw because she served his coffee too hot, police were looking for him because she had served the coffee too cold...
Gavilan's margin was decisive. But Bratton's performance looked a lot more impressive after it turned out that he had fought the last eleven rounds under a double handicap: a broken right hand and a broken jaw. In his dressing room, Bratton, soaking his swollen right hand in a bucket of ice water, complained glumly: "You gotta hit 'em to make 'em respect you . . . and it hurt too much to hit him." Jubilant Kid Gavilan, first Cuban ever to win a world title,* happily verified Bratton's complaint: "He no never hurt...
...five silver stars, he strode with an easy half-wave, half-salute through a jam of curious stenos and secretaries, past milling clusters of newsmen and photographers, into Room 318 of the Senate Office Building. Bedlam followed him in. Cameramen clambered on to chairs to capture the firm jaw, the still-dark hair and serious mien, for the afternoon editions. The 25 Senators of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees dribbled in, shook hands with Douglas MacArthur one by one, and found their places at a long table. Other Senators, admitted by a last-minute vote which opened...
...Madden to the rebel army just in time for him to get in a few licks in the Easter Rising. And sure enough, Madden quickly proves himself the sort of character who looks his best in very curt sentences, e.g., "Madden floored the bricklayer with a right to the jaw...
...standards. Its hero is an insecure weakling with whom no red-blooded American moviegoer will care to identify himself. Its heavy is that rarely assailed folk heroine, Mom. Its backgrounds (a bombed-out Italian village, a humid Manhattan slum) are as real and painful as a clout on the jaw. Least conventional of all, and the best thing about Teresa, is its heroine, who gives U.S. movies a new kind of personality and performance...