Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIKE all Ethiopian royalty, curly-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie traces his ancestry back to the match between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. His Semite-Hamite blood lines show in his stern jaw and aquiline nose. But in practical fact, his hold on the Ethiopian throne has been due less to ancestry than to his ability to outplot Ethiopia's best plotters...
...sweet princess," "highly esteemed princess," "dearest highly esteemed little princess," and "Your Sigmund" sent her "100,000 kisses, all of which are to be cashed." A penniless knight-errant, Freud was quite a gallant: "What can it be that you want ... a tooth out of the Caliph's jaw, a jewel from Queen Victoria's crown, a giant's autograph, or something equally fantastic which would mean putting on my armor at once and setting out for the Orient?" Into such hyperbolic reveries crept the unaffected but affecting confession: "I was in love with none...
...From the Latin for a "little net" of tissues lining the blood vessels. The ones that produce white blood cells and (presumably) other defenses against disease are in the spleen, lymph nodes and liver. * Actinomyces bovis, cause of the disease "lumpy jaw" in cattle...
...streets, shrieking curses and obscenities. One European sent an African sprawling in the gutter, gloated, "That's the fourth one I've sorted out tonight." In a Kitwe nightclub, two Africans were quietly having dinner when a white customer walked over and punched one in the jaw. Police urged the bleeding African to press charges. "No, sir," he replied. "They've got to learn, and we must have patience...
...evangelical sect called Pilgrim Zeal, which has promised her a trip to their holy of holies: Minneapolis, Minn. Candida races about the islands with the enraptured but platonic Henry (her only proviso: "We must not make a baby!"). She involves him in punching a local union leader in the jaw and horsewhipping an editor. The timid colonial government claps Henry into jail and ships him off as a bundle for Britain...