Word: jawing
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...patient's own teeth have worked well when thus transplanted, and rare is the patient who happens to have a surplus tooth handy just when it is needed. Now Brown University's Dr. Milton Hodosh reports encouraging progress with plas tic implants, molded to the aching jaw as soon as the offending tooth has been pulled. To make sure that the implants will stand up under any conceivable strain, he is installing them in baboons, which think nothing of trying to chew the steel bars of their cages...
...five or six, and when he was 17 he lost his father, a member of the petty nobility. "By nature impressionable and eager," as he remarks in La Commedia, the boy somehow acquired a superb intellectual education. At an early age his appearance was forceful-hook nose, big jaw, protruding lower lip-and his disposition thorny. "He was somewhat presumptuous, disdainful and haughty," according to a contemporary, "and knew not well how to bear himself with common people...
Some $3,000,000 worth of spectators saw--or didn't see, depending on whether or not they were blinking at the time--the Muslim from Louisville peddle backwards and land a lightening "phantom" right to the jaw which sent Charles "Sonny" Liston sprawling to his downfall in what was certainly one of the most bizarre bouts in boxing history...
...public had wearied of yellow journalism, and the comics calmed down. There was less jaw breaking, more jawing, though the humor was still basic. Mutt, originally a horseplayer, was soon joined by Jeff, and the pair still quietly swindle each other today. Abie the Agent, an ethnic comic character, often cracked jokes in Yiddish and was not above haranguing a waiter: "It ain't the principle either; it's the ten cents." In Bringing Up Father, Irish-born Jiggs plans desperate stratagems to escape his starched collar and shrewish wife for the solid comforts of Dinty Moore...
...Batman (someone named Lewis Wilson) fits the funny book picture all the way down to his square jaw. Robin, the Boy Wonder (someone with too much curly hair), looks a bit too effeminate. Linda (Gotham's own Lois Lane) is pretty enough, so we can let our hero admire her with out compromising our conception...