Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism could be slain by the jaw bone of an ass, in the junior Senator from Connecticut America would have a weapon more insidiously lethal than any atomic blast...
...took the offensive in his flagship Enterprise, raided the Marshall Islands; two months after that, he launched Jimmy Doolittle's Army B-25s from Hornet against Tokyo. "We get away with it because we violate the traditional rules," he grinned, and the Navy loved him for his craggy jaw and bushy eyebrow's, his baseball cap, his salty determination to ride Emperor Hirohito's white horse through Tokyo...
With his firm jaw and conservative business suits, Robert Oliver, 36, is the picture of a successful executive. And so he is: boss of management development at California's missile-making Hughes-Aircraft Co. But when he talks, his voice is that of someone else: an oldtime Wagnerian "black bass," echoing with rare depth and timbre. Executive Oliver's voice is so unusual, in fact, that when Composer Igor Stravinsky first heard him, he added a specially low voice role to his last great work and asked Oliver to sing...
...Richard M. Nixon's visit to Moscow [Aug. 3]. Why shouldn't the leaders of the nations meet, rub shoulders, wave fists and argue occasionally in public? Why shouldn't the peoples of the nations meet and discuss, argue and risk an occasional sock in the jaw? Altogether it is good, sharp, educational stuff for both us and the Russians...
...Driver Mitchum scrawled a mild obscenity and got socked squarely in the eye for his unfriendly inscription. The story grew hazier from then on, but most agreed that Mitchum had poured a smoky slug of Irish whisky over somebody else's head, butted his new adversary on the jaw, got kicked in the face in reply. Next morning Pugilist Mitchum turned up for moviemaking with a cut nose, fast-blackening eye, aching jaw and a wry admission that "he certainly hurt...