Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARTEMUS C. WARD Moose Jaw, Sask...
...spectacular improvement in U.S. employment brought jaw-cracking grins from the economists at the U.S. Department of Labor. For the month of May, unemployment dropped 238,000 to a total of 3,389,000 throughout the U.S. The improvement cut the overall percentage of jobless to 4.9% of the labor force for the first time since the early stages of the recession. Just as impressive, employment jumped 1,000,000 to 66 million, new alltime high for the month...
...stage fright before the race. "I was scared," he admits. "I had to run against these greats. I just didn't think I was the material to be in the same category with those guys, but I remembered what the coach told me: 'Keep your jaw loose, relax, and drive when you see that tape...
...Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, a pretty, impressible girl of 21 named Eleanor Butler Alexander was overshadowed at her own wedding. So. two summers out of Harvard, was the groom. Behind them, in a front pew, sat the groom's father -famous spectacles, famous mustache, famous teeth, famous granite jaw-the great Theodore Roosevelt, not two summers out of the White House. Among the guests in the church: no fewer than 500 of T.R.'s old Rough Riders...
...speaker's stand at the great Exposition Hall at Omaha strode a spare, erect man with snapping blue eyes and firm jaw, his quick step springing to the band's blare of Marching Through Georgia. The date was June 1893. The speaker, in the double identity that was the theme of his life, was 1) Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest surviving son of General William Tecumseh Sherman, who had died but two years befofe; 2) the Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, a militant Jesuit, known to the lecture circuit as "Father Tom." The Jesuit began to speak in bullet sentences...