Word: jawing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth led with a crack at the Germans' Adriatic jaw. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army followed with a smash at the Tyrrhenian side. Both blows were aimed ultimately at Rome, where the Allies had once hoped to be before Christmas...
...body had been very positively identified. Discovered in Schiller Park by Chicago police, the murdered, badly burned corpse was little more than a skeleton, but a Negro woman was certain it was her missing husband. A dentist was equally certain that he recognized the jaw. The woman claimed her husband's insurance...
Everett Pearl, an adagio dancer, won a divorce from her partner, who, she charged, was too realistic in his tossing. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Robert Worthington won a divorce after complaining that her husband had nagged her when she had her broken jaw wired shut...
...about on a farm some 50 miles from Johannesburg in 1938, bright-eyed Robert Broom found the left side of a manlike skull, a mandible, the distal end of a humerus, the proximal end of an ulna, some finger bones. In 1941 Broom & friends found part of a lower jaw. In September Broom found an anklebone. Last week there was still no evidence of murder...
...Pershing had other ideas. The American forces must fight as a unit, he said, and set his jaw. They could train better under their own men; they would not become infected with the Allies' pessimism. A victorious American Army would give the nation prestige at the peace table, he thought. The U.S. must keep its own military tradition; there would be other wars. Foch, Clemenceau, Lloyd George bickered and bargained, Wilson and Baker backed their man up. Pershing won his point. The American forces trained and fought as a unit...