Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With less than half a minute of the fight remaining, the battered, bleeding La Motta suddenly saw an opening, fired his first good salvo of the evening. A right hook caught Dauthuille flush on the jaw, gave ringside cameramen one of the finest knockout pictures of the season (see cut). Jake's sudden come-alive finish left some sportwriters unimpressed ("manufactured melodrama," one called it), but it saved Jake's title by the barest of margins: the fight had only 13 seconds to go when Dauthuille was counted...
...became a legend -a brigadier general at 36, a major general six months later. In England, LeMay decided that too many of his B-17s were missing enemy targets because they zigzagged out of the way of heavy antiaircraft fire. He clamped a cigar in his jaw, led the next raid over Saint Nazaire, held his plane on course up to the bomb drop through murderous ack-ack for a grim seven minutes. Next day he issued a flat order: no more evasive action on the final bombing run. Plane damage went up, but results went up more...
...cats at any price. Ailurophobia (fear of cats) may in certain cases be so intense that the mere suggestion of a cat's presence may cause the sufferer, in the words of a scientific observer, to respond with "fear, terror, disgust . . . chilly sensations, horripilation [goose flesh], weakness, locked jaws or . . . fixed open jaw, rigidity of arms, pallor, nausea . . . vomiting, pronounced hysterical convulsions and even temporary blindness. These pass away with removal...
...name that went with the face was Jacob Malik. He appeared as a broad-shouldered, blond figure, slimmer on television than he actually is, with a hard-set jaw, impassive and unsmiling. Often he stared balefully at his unseen audience; sometimes he scribbled notes or leaned back to catch the whispers of three Russian aides sitting behind him. Hour after hour, in a dry voice that rarely rose in audible anger, meticulously using the same phrases and arguments, meticulously carrying out his orders, he lied...
...novel's hero, "tall, slim and fair . . . with tanned cheeks, a square uncompromising jaw, and an air of sufferings overcome," is Pierre Osbecque, a youth raised by a family in Flanders. Pierre's great aim in life is to win the English throne. He announces that he is really Richard, Duke of York, who was supposedly murdered by his evil uncle, Richard III. As proof of his claim, Pierre flashes a ruby ring given him by the Duchess of Burgundy-whom everybody else admits is an honest-to-gosh descendant of York...