Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newcomer waved a .45 service automatic and aimed it ominously at General Taylor, commander of all U.S. ground forces in the Far East. For a stupefied moment, nothing happened. Then a husky Korean general grabbed the uninvited guest in a hammer lock, while another Korean punched him in the jaw and a third pinned his arms to his side. As Korean sentries rushed into the room, Taylor calmly suggested that the briefing continue. In an embarrassed five minutes, the lecture was over. Before General Taylor left for Seoul, he ordered his public relations officers to say nothing about the incident...
...Approximately the same age and description as Java man (Pithecanthropus erectus) of low brow, apelike jaw and human teeth, whose skullcap and femur were first uncovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois...
...inability to play consistently, probably due to his fiery nature and temperament." Last season fiery-natured Geoffrion got into a stick-swinging brawl with the Rangers' Ron Murphy. The Canadiens say Murphy swung first but missed, then Geoffrion naturally retaliated-and broke Murphy's jaw. Geoffrion was fined and forbidden to play the Rangers for the rest of the season...
Teeth & Tongue. Needless doctoring can start right at birth, said Pediatrician Lawson, in cases where a baby happens to be born with teeth. These are often loose and appear to be of little use. But if left alone, they usually become firmly fixed in the jaw, whereas yanking them out may cause bleeding, ulcers or infection. Also, said Dr. Lawson, there is still too much routine clipping of tongues, although it is now known that a long membrane beneath the tongue does not affect speech or nursing to any extent...
When the famous jaw of "Piltdown man" was proved by chemical tests to be a skillful fake (TIME. Nov. 30. 1953), some authorities were unwilling to condemn the late Charles Dawson, a respected antiquarian of southern England who claimed to have found it in 1911. The faking was too good, the experts said, for a man without technical skill...