Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arms and sign up recruits for the Heavenly Host. McEwan arrested the swashbuckling outlaw for entering the British Crown colony illegally. Singapore police carelessly put him into a prison cell with an Indonesian student named Haris Porkas. Half an hour later, Porkas was carried out with a broken jaw. Westerling said that Porkas had provoked the fight. When Westerling offered his hand, Porkas spat...
...apple-cheeked Harry Byrd, the Senate's economizer extraordinary, is almost as adventurous an undertaking as stalking a bull elephant with an arquebus. But Minnesota's bumptious Freshman Hubert Humphrey was never one to heed the admonitions of his elders. He sighted on Harry Byrd's jaw-cracking Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures. Far from serving as a useful check on government spending, blared Humphrey, the Byrd committee might better be described as "the nonessential committee on nonessential expenditures...
...beat the devil" out of mental patients, through the middle '30s, when electric and insulin shock therapy began, physical treatment of the insane relied on rude methods. Even now, shock "cures" may be worse than the disease: they often fail to cure, and sometimes the patient breaks a jaw or crushes his backbone in violent, convulsive spasms...
...headquarters, too, it was exciting-in a different way. Morgan Phillips was feverishly scribbling calculations on bits of blue paper. One Laborite looked at the news ticker, whispered, "We're down to 24." Everyone heard him. The ticker throbbed on. Phillips' ashtray overflowed. He sat back silent, jaw in hand; then he got up, glanced out of the window, sat down again and lighted another cigarette. The voice at the ticker spoke again: "We're down to four-no, three-no, four . . ." At 4:45 p.m. Phillips looked across the room toward the machine, paused, then breathed...
...fought rings around his opponent, swarthy George Small of Brooklyn. Roach was so far ahead on points that he could not help winning-if he just stayed out of trouble. But in the eighth round Small let go a desperation right and it crashed flush on Roach's jaw. It ripped the flesh inside his mouth and blood gushed from his lips. Roach's legs buckled; staggering, slack-jawed and glassy-eyed, he hung...