Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flushing out the voters, but was sublimely oblivious to the fact that his caravan seemed to be in the hands of the anarchical Marx brothers. Nothing seemed to go right. Suitcases were lost, people missed the plane. Top Aide J. Howard McGrath, his sodden cigar clamped in his jaw, once absentmindedly darted into a ladies' room; local leaders along the route were frequently unprepared for the Keef's arrival-late as it invariably was. There was something of the horse-drawn medicine show about Kefauver's approach-neither high road nor low road, but side...
...Reconstructive Surgery. Drs. Lyon P. Strean and Lyndon A. Peer studied 228 cases of cleft palate at Newark's Hospital of St. Barnabas, 40% among first-born children. Going back over the mothers' experiences during the critical weeks of pregnancy-when the two halves of the upper jaw normally fuse in the palatal arch-the doctors found that 23% had been ill or injured, and no less than 68% recalled emotional disturbances. Notable among these were a death in the family, loss of a job, marital incompatibility, worry because of a previous miscarriage; 19% had "morning sickness" with...
Krebiozen is a whitish powder prepared from the serum of horses that have been injected with material from an abscess (known as "lumpy jaw") occurring in cattle. Its effect, according to Yugoslav-born Dr. Stevan Durovic, its discoverer, is to provide the body with a regulatory hormone that it needs to control the multiplication of cells...
Rene Char is a Frenchman with a great, hulking frame (6 ft. 3 in.) and a jaw like a duck press. By almost unanimous consent of his countrymen, he is the greatest French poet of his time. Existentialist Author Albert Camus spoke for the French intelligentsia when he saluted Char as "the great poet for whom we have been waiting." But English-reading people must take a French poetic reputation, like the credentials of ambassadors, largely on trust. In this bilingual sampler of his work, U.S. readers will be able to decide for themselves that measure for measure...
Masked Intention. In Akron, when ten patrolmen surrounded him in a grocery after a hurry-up call from the proprietor, Irvin Harris untied a handkerchief from his swollen face, explained that he wore it because all his teeth had been pulled the day before and his jaw hurt...