Word: jawing
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...Italian battleships, sir," I says. 'I can count, you bloody fool.' he says. Shortly was more Eyeties. 'Eighteen cruisers, sir.' I says. 'Dammit, man, I'm not blind,' he says. So then I decided I'd better hold my jaw, and shortly when there was more Eyeties I didn't say a word. 'How many of their destroyers off there?' he sways. 'Twenty-seven, sir,' I says. So he bloody near blew me off the bridge for not tellin...
Franklin Roosevelt smiled and thanked him. The little rotund, stooped, pink-faced, bulldog-jawed Britisher, his visored cap askew over the remnants of sandy yellow hair that once was red, stood beaming, like a deceptively diffident cherub. The tall, easy-mannered American, with a jaw just as stubborn, stood with his huge shoulders thrown back, his head cocked on one side, as it always is when he meets something new and important...
...overworked jaw of Leon Henderson, busy trying to talk prices down and a price control bill through Congress, President Roosevelt gave help this week. Invoking the amended Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 (which previously had served as a basis for freezing Axis funds) the President issued an executive order clamping down hard on consumer credit...
...mystical profundity that shrouds Henry Wallace, Wickard is a straightforward, balding, apple-cheeked farmer with a weather-bronzed, red-neck color that will last him all his days. He is five-feet-eight, weighs 180 lb., has to watch his weight. He looks more Irish than German, has a jaw so square and solid that it looks as if it had been laid out by a brick mason. His shoulders, neck and torso are wrestler-heavy...
...area Adolf Hitler has been most interested in ever since he dictated Mein Kampf is the Ukraine (see p. 27). Into the Ukraine many fingers of attack dug forward. As the basis of this attack, and also as the southern jaw of the master pincers, German troops, supported by Rumanians, cut into Bessarabia, the area which Russia grabbed from Rumania in June 1940. Main Russian defenses were behind the Dnieper; Bessarabia looked as easy to take as the Baltic States...