Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...felt competent to handle this one himself. A reference book on the duty desk showed what drugs a Liberian freighter is required to carry. The doctor wrote out a message: Tea and Mineral Water. "Keep the patient in bed with absolute rest. Apply linseed poultices continuously on the swollen jaw. Give intramuscular injection of 500,000 units of penicillin combined with half gram of streptomycin morning and evening. Give only weak tea, orange juice, mineral water for 24 hours." After two days the Henri G. reported: "Patient seems better this morning. Yesterday evening pulse go fever 102 this morning pulse...
...some 100,000 years older than the Peking man or Java man. Says Leakey, a broad, rumpled, sometime Cambridge don: "My 19-year-old son Jonathan wandered across a slope during a pause in our other work at Olduvai and picked up a small fragment of animal jaw. 'You've got a saber-toothed tiger.' I said. We'd been expecting to get one. So we started a small dig, and the first thing we got was a human tooth. That's the way things are found in archaeology-a combination of keen observation...
...Demands. His heavy jaw jutting like one of Ionesco's man-turned-rhinoceros, and flanked by two beetling aides,* Zorin laid out the Soviet demands in his curious reedy tenor: 1) arrest Katanga's Moise Tshombe and Congolese Army Major General Joseph Mobutu, and put them on trial; 2) dissolve all Tshombe and Mobutu troop units and force all Belgians out of the Congo; 3) pull the U.N. force out of the Congo within a month...
Furlough Time. Fact is that Winchell himself is not sure. Felled early last fall by a severe staphylococcus infection of the jaw, Winchell, 63, dropped out of a half-hour TV news program in mid-October; the following month, faced with the threat of surgery when the infection did not respond well to antibiotic treatment, he stopped writing his column as well. Since then, his only work has been narrating The Untouchables, a cops-and-robbers TV show in which he is an off-screen voice, reading a prepared script...
...probably come out of its recession in 1961. Most economists predict a sharp upturn during the latter half of the year, which may soothe the complaints about the U.S. But the tides of nationalism are running strong, and the U.S. can expect to hear more and more about that jaw-cracking word "Canadianization...