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Word: jawings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then up rose a heavy-jawed, aging (61) and ailing man to answer the voice of India. Speaking badly but bluntly, "weaving no elegant web of words," Columbia-trained Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, nominal leader of India's 60 million Untouchables, challenged the man he once served as Minister of Law. "Nobody wants war," said Ambedkar, "but peace is being purchased at the price of partitioning countries. By this kind of peace, you are feeding the giant every time he opens his jaw. This giant may one day turn to us and say, T have now consumed everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Untouchable's Warning | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...reserve police colonel. "The session is about to begin." He smiled broadly, then hit a middle-aged Arab with his right fist, below the belt. As the Arab went down, the colonel kneed him in the groin. The Arab tried to get up; another cop caught him across the jaw with a club. Down went the Arab and the next cop kicked him, twice. He got up again and ran into the arms of still another policeman, who poked him into a sitting position with the muzzle of a carbine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MOROCCO: Running the Gauntlet | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...knees for a count of five. Unruffled, he kept right on shifting his style, teasing the challenger, waiting for Johnson to make a mistake. Johnson finally obliged. In the 14th, he backed carelessly into a corner. Instantly, Moore moved in. Johnson took a short, straight right to the jaw, spun half around as if looking for help and sank to the canvas. He was up at five. The furious frown that the challenger had been wearing was gone now; in its place was an empty grin. Two vicious punches from Moore and even the grin faded. The fight was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Keep Out of Manhattan | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Closing the Gap. In the TV show, Jarrin' Jack can never quite reconcile himself to the fact that Junior is not a muscular fresh-air fiend like himself, but a studious type who collects tropical fish. Junior is convincingly played by Gil Stratton Jr., burr head, droop jaw, horn rims and all. What particularly jars Jack is the knowledge that the son of his meek, pint-sized office bookkeeper is a strapping answer to a football coach's prayer. Yet in program four, after Pop has the bookkeeper's boy underfoot for a weekend, he finds that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Daddy with a Difference | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Phil Waring will be in action despite his roughing up in the Penn game. X-rays were taken after that game in fear of a possible broken jaw or concussion, but they showed nothing wrong. John Lane, however, is still out. He may be able to work out Thursday and Friday and play in the Dartmouth game on Saturday, but will not even dress today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Plays U. of News Hampshire; Yardlings at Andover | 5/5/1954 | See Source »

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