Word: jawing
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...South Pacific island, playing ball for a ist Marine Division regimental team, Pfc. George E. Benson Jr. lifted a high foul out past third base. A Stinson grasshopper artillery spotting plane was coming in to land. The ball crashed through the windshield, broke the pilot's jaw and knocked him unconscious...
...bourgeois. Key West and revolutionary Havana; he now works out of wartime Martinique, and the villains are Vichyites. Marie is no longer an idealized image of happy marriage; she is a tall, hoarse, egregious, 22-year-old tramp, so worldly-wise that when a policeman all but slaps her jaw out of joint she hardly bats...
Leathery, compact, of medium height, with a belligerent jaw and a mouth like a trap, Chesty Puller became the model of a professional fighting...
...Edmundson revolters held a pre-convention caucus. For 90 minutes, there was talk of "union democracy." Then a scuffle broke out in the rear, and the chocking sound of fist meeting jaw. Lewisites swarmed over chairs, mounted the rostrum, demanded-and took-the floor. Edmundson left, forgetting his coat...
...have to tell you," snapped the General, in his best imitation of the Potsdam manner, and clamped his jaw...