Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cockell had been knocked through the ropes for a count of two when the bell rang ending the eight round. A hard right to the jaw dropped Cockell early in the ninth...
...busts right out, "Kin we see it naow?" "Yup," says the foreman. The two men brace themselves, walk shoulder to shoulder to the front door of the main ranch house, open it, walk through the bedroom, open the door beyond. Timidly Cowboy Douglas peeks in. His eyes bulge. His jaw drops...
...show. "He just doesn't give a damn until he wants to give a damn," sighed Owner Saylor, "and he doesn't give one very often." But in the view of Judge Albert Van Court, Jock's massive shoulders, his wrinkled face with its powerful undershot jaw, and the low-slung carriage seemed little short of perfection. Not since 1913 had a bulldog won that final award...
...woman leaned on a stick and whimpered softly. Her husband explained: she had lived on Upper Tachen all her life, and could not understand what was going on. "She's deaf; she cries all the time." he said, and grinned, showing a single yellow tooth in his lower jaw. She was not the only one who found the evacuation of the Tachens hard to understand. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, putting the best face he could on it, proclaimed that the Tachens' troops were being redeployed "to meet the new challenge of international Communist aggression...
...Anacostia in 1934, his career nearly came to a sudden end. He was testing a plane when the main fuel line broke, gasoline flooded the cockpit and caught fire. Pride held his breath, so as not to inhale flames, and crashed in the Potomac River. His jaw and left leg were broken. Doctors decided to amputate the leg, but by sheer chance, a new chief surgeon reported for duty and agreed to delay the operation. The leg was saved, but Pride still walks with a limp. Says he: "I have to carry a little left rudder all the time...