Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first round, Matthews nimbly danced away from most of Marciano's bullish lunges, but caught a slam-bang one-two on the jaw just before the bell. The referee steered the Kid toward his own corner. In the other corner, Marciano's manager then told Rocky: "Stop hooking. Jab first-then hook and double it up." About two minutes later, Rocky applied the advice. Matthews went down on to the seat of his boxing trunks as if his ring record (unbeaten since 1943) had been pulled out from under him, took a count of 10. Mauler Marciano...
...expert and No. 2 man of the Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, emerged from No. 12 Gerichtstrasse, on his way to work, and started briskly toward the El station, six blocks away. Two men got out of the taxi. One drove a powerful fist into Dr. Linse's jaw; the other seized the lawyer and bundled him into the taxi, which drove off at high speed in the direction of the Soviet sector...
...decibels (common near the tail pipe of a jet) feels the waves in surprising ways. If he holds out his hand, his fingers get painfully hot whenever they touch one another. If he partially opens his mouth, his nasal cavities may resonate like organ pipes. Sometimes his lower jaw vibrates so strongly that he has to grit his teeth to quiet it down. His ears get hot as they ride the waves; his nostrils get hot too. He may see only vague blurs as his eyeballs dance, and individual muscles resonate like plucked guitar strings...
...carries a frightening passenger. The name is G.* During steady, level flights, G keeps still as a mouse, but when the plane makes a turn or pulls out of a dive, G takes charge. Every part of the pilot's body grows unnaturally heavy. His cheeks sag; his jaw drops open; the blood rushes out of his brain; his guts crowd into his belly. Too many Gs can black a man out, cripple him or even kill him. Air battles of the future, fought above the speed of sound, will be won by pilots equipped to outwit...
Soon after, Manning had a crackup in his own Fairchild monoplane. He was hauled from the wreckage with a concussion, compound fractures of both legs, a compound jaw fracture, a broken arm, a broken nose, and countless cuts and bruises. Doctors thought he would never walk again. But nine months after the crackup he was back on the bridge...