Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When an orthodontist tries to correct malformations in a child's teeth and jaw, he must attempt to figure out how these parts will change as the youngster matures. Dr. Geoffrey Walker of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry has come up with a method that promises to reduce the guesswork involved in this process. He has taken 15,000 skull-profile X rays made over a period of years and converted these pictures to coordinate maps of the skull and jaw. The result is a computer model capable of predicting how a jaw will grow. With just...
...cent of the guards insist on harassing prisoners by enforcing petty rules." The New Crusader paused again. "And five per cent of the guards are sadistic brutal people who get their kicks by squirting mace at the prisoners confined in isolation." The New Crusader stopped speaking, let his jaw slacken, and then went on to discuss less emotional issues...
...Rocky Graziano, Frank Gifford, W. Averell Harriman, and Larry O'Brien (who held up a T shirt emblazoned: I'M A DEMOCRAT-DONT BUG ME). "Hello, Big John!" Toots roared as he bussed fellow Restaurateur Jack Dempsey. The former champion answered with a playful right to the jaw. Said one guest as the mid-afternoon party neared midnight: "I'll probably be here for breakfast...
...routine never varied: he would come down the ramp of his chartered 727 wearing facial expression No. 1, a closemouthed, eye-twinkly look of expectation. Then, as he greeted the local Democratic leaders, he would go to expression No. 2, the Shriver grin-jutting out the lower jaw and squinting his left eye, for a conspiratorial Commander Whitehead effect. Sometimes he would shake the same hand two, three times, and once the shakee complained, "You already shook my hand back there," but Shriver didn't mind...
...began to make his move. His target: Kenya's Kipchoge Keino, who had defeated Ryun in the heady Mexico City air. Ryun only needed to finish fourth to qualify. But as he challenged the pack, he tangled legs with Ghana's Billy Fordjour, clipped himself in the jaw with his own knee and went sprawling across the track. The fans cheered as a stunned Ryun struggled to his feet and gamely tried to catch up. But it was much too late, and the long striding runner failed to qualify in what was surely his last bid for Olympic...