Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freak farm accident in Castle-blayney two years ago, Cyril Morrison, nine-year-old son of an Irish farm worker, got himself pinned between a tractor and a stone wall. The accident splintered the boy's jaw and sent a knifelike sliver slicing across the base of his tongue. It cut the tongue off close to the roots...
...local doctor put a temporary splint on the broken jawbone and sent Cyril to Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital. His fractured jaw was soon on the road to recovery, but he still lacked a tongue. Last week, after a series of delicate grafting operations performed in London's Westminster Hospital, at the expense of Britain's national health plan, Cyril had a new tongue. It had been built by three surgeons out of muscle tissue from the floor of his mouth wrapped around with thinly sliced skin from...
Jake LaMotta, middleweight champion of the world up to last week, is a stolid, truculent fighter with a good punch and a Gibraltar jaw. In 95 fights, deep-chested Jake has never been knocked off his feet. For this combination of qualities, Jake is nicknamed "The Bronx Bull." It was Jake's misfortune last week to defend his title for 13 rounds against Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight* champion, a man for whom no completely adequate nickname has yet been invented. Pound for pound, Sugar Ray is the best fighter now wearing gloves. Meeting him in Chicago Stadium, Jake...
...been coming with increasing frequency in recent months. At his press conference last week, the President was plainly feeling irascible again. He answered all questions with the same half-throttled irritation. Reminded that some Congressmen were threatening to fry the fat out of the budget, he thrust out his jaw and declared that they had said that last year and ended up adding a billion or so. It was a good, tight budget, he said truculently, and he dared them to do anything...
Stiff Eyeballs. Johnny's arms and legs were frozen solid. Her abdomen was stiff, her jaw locked tight. "Even her eyeballs," says Dr. Laufman, "were crystal hard. They were like two glass beads." Her temperature could not be taken at once, because regular clinical thermometers do not go low enough. After an hour and a half, a laboratory thermometer was found and used rectally. Her temperature then was 64.4° F.-far below the point generally considered fatal...