Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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lead. Then the hand of a Terrier lineman found its way under Buchanan's facemask, and the quarterback had his jaw broken and his season finished...
...sentences strung themselves out in endless, knotted ropes of words. But Tuesday night, once he had lost, once he had fumbled a lead that once seemed as solid as any in politics could be, Kennedy was ready to orate, to stretch his Boston accent and jut his jaw and preach the Good Word...
...Jaw thrust forward, spoiling for a fight, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did not mince any words. "It is no good dreaming about U-turns," she shouted at the Labor M.P.s who had been demanding a radical reversal of her economic policies. "Far from demoralizing the country, we are doing what the country elected us to do, and this government will have the guts to see it through." The buoyant show of indomitability was occasioned last week by a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons, the second called by the opposition in five months. The outcome...
...near Piltdown, England, an amateur fossil hunter named Charles Dawson "found" the first of two skulls with a human-like cranium and an apelike jaw. The find was hailed as the missing link between man and ape; for years Piltdown man occupied a prominent place in paleontology. Finally in 1953 he was unmasked: the remains were nothing more than a fabrication of modern human and ape bones doctored to give them the look of antiquity...
Winston Churchill once observed that "jaw-jaw is better than...