Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philadelphia, 17,007 pack the Spectrum for every game to cheer on the "Broad Street Bullies"; on the road, S.R.O. crowds come to boo the tempestuous enemy. The cry for blood explodes whenever Flyer Enforcer Dave Schultz (6 ft. 1 in., 190 lbs.) starts swinging for the nearest hostile jaw. Inevitably, other teams have been infected by the mugging malaise...
...Last week, the poetaster-pugilists stepped into the ring at Atlanta's Southeastern Fair Grounds to celebrate Black Atlanta Week. Just the sight of Jackson in gargantuan batik swimming trunks was too much for Ali, and when the mayor threw a near miss past the champ's jaw, Ali went down for the count. Said Ali after recovering from the wind that whistled by his mandible, "This is his city and I had to let him win so I could...
...returned to his deadlier contest in the Ewing Eight ward of the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in Manhattan. He had been in and out of the ward since the beginning of his illness. To his friends there-an old woman with no larynx, a boy with no jaw, a man whose flesh had wasted away, and one or two people his own age-he became an un-defeatable rallying point. He mocked doom by plotting "jail breaks" and rebellion against the staff. He laughed at cancer by drawing and circulating absurd cartoons. Once, he and another man smuggled themselves...
Small's invention, called the mandibular staple, is a lightweight titanium bar with two long, threaded pins and up to seven shorter ones (see diagram). It is attached to the dense bone on the underside of the jaw where its short pins help hold it in place. The long pins pass through the mandible and protrude through the gum into the mouth. There they serve as abutments to winch a dental bridge can be fastened...
...most of the 40 patients who have been fitted with the device have had no problems at all. Robert O'Dwyer, 41, a Detroit mechanical engineer, went through several sets of false teeth after smasinng ins jaw in a 1957 automobile accident. He found them all so uncomfortable and unsatisfactory that he actually took them out winle eating. Since being fitted with a mandibular staple in 1969, he has eaten everytinng, including such hard-to-chew foods as carrots...