Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy time enough to recover. Some Democrats protested that the long delay was not necessary; they viewed it as a trick to delay censure action until the Democratic 84th Congress takes over. Oregon's Wayne Morse told how he had made nine speeches in 1951 with his broken jaw still wired. New York's Lehman told how he had campaigned with a fractured leg. Finally, however, Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen spoke...
...weary wag some years his senior replied by recommending The Black Shield of Falworth as distinctly "the lesser of medievals." Actually, The Black Shield is better than that. In sheer athletic thwack-in the vim with which buffets are fetched and weasands slit-it is one of the jaw-jarringest things of its kind since Douglas Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood...
...draw out Leviathan with a fish hook? Can you put a rope in its nose or Plerce his Jaw with a hook? Will he play with you as a bird? Or will you put him on leash for your maidens...
Although he has the face of an inbred Yankee, with a jaw as granitic as any Salstonstall's, Ed Muskie is the son of a Polish immigrant. His father, born Stephen Marciszewski, fled Poland as a 15-year-old refugee from czarist military conscription. He Americanized the family name, learned the tailoring trade, and eventually settled in Rumford. In spite of his sedentary occupation, father Muskie was a confirmed outdoorsman at heart, and Ed became an enthusiastic fisherman, a good skier and a competent trackman in school...
...briefly, bloodied Marciano's broad nose. In the eighth, he opened a small cut over the champion's left eye. Then he made his mistake. Stepping away from a clumsy left hook, he dropped his own protecting left hand. Rocky crossed with a roundhouse right to the jaw. Limp and empty-eyed, Charles sagged to the canvas. He was up at the count of four. Rocky was all over him, pumping those stubby arms with awful, awkward power. Down for the third time. Charles took the count of ten. He was still groggy when he stumbled across...