Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Penn squad, peppered with football players, was fairly liberal with blocks and slashes. Waring lost his wind temporarily when clipped in the fourth period, and shortly after caught a stick in the jaw and left the field, dazed...
Arriving in Geneva, Dulles set his jaw grimly, and did his best to re-establish an air of Western determination. He dismissed talk of partitioning Indo-China, a notion to which the British have clung. "The only partition I would favor," said Dulles, "would be to set apart a place way up north, about the size of this room, and lock up all the Communists there...
...verbal slugfest with the Eisenhower Administration, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, the onetime Marquette University light-heavyweight boxer, had taken a solid punch on the jaw. Last week Senator McCarthy's committee colleagues moved in to separate the assailants. Taking advantage of the bell, Slugger McCarthy took off as scheduled on a Midwestern speaking tour, hoping that a change of pace and of subject would help him recover from damage done by the Army's chronicle of the case of Private David Schine. But the bell came too late to avert physical exhaustion: two days later Joe McCarthy was stricken...
...over in two rounds. Perez rocked Willie in Round One with a hard left to the jaw, but Willie backtracked out of trouble with something of his famed old dancing-master style. In the second, Willie even came boring in with some of his old artful lefts and rights. "Willie's trying for an early knockout," ringside fans told each other. But it wasn't Willie's night. A right cross sent him down for a count of eight. Moments later, another pair of rights sent Willie down again, for nine. And before the round could...
...SNARLING "WOLF BOY" FOUND IN INDIA. All over the U.S. last week, newspapers printed such sensational headlines over wire service stories from New Delhi, describing in wide-eyed fascination the discovery of a "nine-year-old 'wolf boy' " with clawlike hands and a double set of upper-jaw incisors "who walks on all fours, wolfs down raw meat and laps water like an animal . . . There was some speculation the boy might have been reared by jackals, but [the attending doctor] said jackals often devour their young, while she-wolves are known to have strong maternal instincts...