Word: jawed
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Outside teams have also been excluded from the Law School's league because in the past it has been characterized by "excessive force," Upton said. Two years ago an undergraduate took legal action against the Law School after his jaw was broken during a game...
After two opponents of the sale, Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota and Slade Gorton of Washington, rose to argue, Reagan jutted his jaw and retorted: "You're going to cut me off at the knees. I won't be effective in conducting foreign policy." Gorton objected to the President's implication, at his press conference two weeks ago, that opponents of the sale were under the influence of Israel. Said he: "Prime Minister [Menachem] Begin doesn't control my vote." Shot back Reagan: "You may not think Israel is controlling your vote, but the world will." When...
Last week, as if to reinforce Dougal Dixon's point, a team led by Harvard Paleontologist Parish Jenkins Jr. announced a rare discovery from northeastern Arizona: a fossil jaw from a tiny, shrewlike, insect-eating mammal that lived during the early Jurassic period, 180 million years ago. At that time the first small mammals evolved from a kind of mammalian reptile. In evolutionary terms, these creatures bided their time, for 115 million years, until the disappearance of dinosaurs and other reptiles allowed them to evolve thousands of different shapes and sizes. Significantly, the Arizona find adds a third major...
...announced last week that an expedition he led during the summer had found the fossil remains of what is now thought to be the oldest mammal specimen in North America, Farish A. Jenkins Jr., who is also curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said the jaw-bone fossil belongs to a mouse-sized creature that lived about 180 million years ago. "This is the most exciting find of my career because it stimulates our research of the earliest stages of mammalian history," Jenkins said in announcing the discovery of the one-cm.-long bone found...
...jaw-bone fossil, which included four teeth, is unusual because of its completeness. Charles R. Schaff, an assistant to Jenkins who also worked on the Navajo Indian site in Arizona, said yesterday...