Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Venoms. The company uses one of the common, hairless wasps (Polistes fuscatus), which usually nest under eaves or porches, in barns or garages; a hornet (Dolichovespula arenaria), which is distinguished from the typical yellow jacket by having an extra black plate between the eye and the lower jaw, and by building football-shaped nests well above ground; a yellow jacket (V. pennsylvanica), which nests underground or in crevices in rocks or walls; and the domestic honeybee (Apis mellifera...
...Windsor chair as foursquare and unyielding as himself, threw a harsh, searching light on the stubby workingman's hands, which seem to regret having nothing to do, on the brow square-cut as a headstone, on the weary, wise button eyes, plow nose, sickle mouth, Gibraltar jaw-and painted the face of Conscience. One-eyed John Trumbull, an aristocrat who painted small pictures that could be encompassed with his limited vision, was a Fourth of July painter par excellence. He painted his famed The Declaration of Independence (see overleaf) on a canvas only 30 inches wide, compressed...
...depths of a batting slump, the New York Yankees' hefty Rightfielder Hank Bauer was accused of almost knocking the cover off a well-stuffed (close to 200 Ibs.) Manhattan delicatessen owner. The victim was laid up with a cracked nose, broken jaw and slight concussion. The victim's brother, foggily shifting the locale of the brawl among various dingy recesses of Manhattan's brassy Copacabana nightclub, asserted that Bauer, known to his pals as "The Bruiser," did it. As far as Bauer would allow, it must have been two other guys. The victim, unsure about his slugger...
...tumultuous Rooney was not the debonair Cohan, he was still a sliver off the same shank, and great fun to watch as an outrageously brash song-and-dance man taking a reluctant theater by storm. At 36, Rooney is thin on top and thick at the jaw, but he still exudes boyishness, whether socking home Yankee Doodle Dandy in strutting, arm-pumping style, or getting moist-eyed over the last exits of Cohan's vaudeville teammates-his mother, father and sister. As the other three of the Four Cohans, Roberta Sherwood, James Dunn and Gloria De Haven seemed just...
...Robinson knocked out champion Gene Fullmer with a left hook to the jaw in 1:27 of the fifth round to become the first man ever to win the world middleweight title four times...