Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fare to Chicago. Once there, she earned another $800 in three weeks. The two moved on to Manhattan, where she picked up men around luxury hotels, robbing them when she could. Sick of the life after six weeks, she tried to leave her pimp, but he broke her jaw. After hospitalization, she was forced back on the streets by him with her jaw wired shut. When an attempt to kill herself failed, she phoned her parents and fled New York. In ten weeks she had provided her pimp with some...
...camera draws back, and it is seen that the face is that of a middle-aged woman, naked. The fingers are those of a white-coated man who seems to be a doctor. This man now speaks, dictating notes to a secretary: "Lower lip fleshy . . . prognathous jaw typical of non-European races ... could well belong to the Semitic race . . . case doubtful...
From the gallery, Ali cheered for Young, but not out of brotherly love for the Philadelphia heavyweight. The champ wants no part of the 32-year-old Norton. Ali is haunted by his broken jaw at the hands of Norton and remembers the two disputed decisions over the challenger...
...forehead and a small brain. Two years later Broom uncovered a new type of the southern ape a mile away, at Kromdraai. The creature, later called Australopithecus robustus, was heavier and larger than the earlier South African finds, and had bigger teeth, set in a nutcracker-like jaw...
...just as the length of a thigh bone of a modern human can be used to accurately estimate his height. But often anthropologists must interpolate. Anatomists studying jawless skulls of Australopithecus robustus could not help noticing the creature's well-developed zygomatic arch, the structure to which the jaw muscles are anchored; they deduced that the man-ape had an enormous jaw. The discovery of large A. robustus jawbones proved that they were right...