Word: jawings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turpin crowded the champion from the opening bell, getting the better of the infighting, jabbing and hooking to keep Robinson constantly off balance. Not until Round Three did Robinson land a solid punch, a bolo left to the jaw. "Get him, Sugar! Get him, Sugar!" shrilled Edna Mae. But 31-year-old Sugar Ray could not get going. His timing was off, his punches were missing the target, his ballet footwork was out of rhythm. In a seventh-round clinch, Turpin butted an ugly gash over Robinson's left eye. At the sight of blood, the crowd sensed...
...cheek as usual-yet as usual his enunciation of the home truth was unimpaired. To get the marrow out of the masterpiece, it is pretty necessary to follow the dog's example, and in modern times, rather few readers, all in all, have cared to exert enough jaw for that. Rabelais has been put aside, largely untasted, on the snap judgment that he is, as Voltaire said, a "drunken philosopher" who wrote "an extravagant and unintelligent book . . . prodigal of erudition, ordures and boredom." The book which Rabelais merrily dedicated to "Drinkers and . . . Syphilitics" has become the property of prurients...
...reflexes crystallized. "All right, now," Police Constable Muckle told Harry, when he pulled to a stop, "let's see your identity card." Since the first days of World War II, all Britons have been required to carry identity cards and produce them on demand, but Harry's jaw was set. "No," he answered. Constable Muckle rubbed his chin. "Will you produce it within two days at a police station?" he asked. "No," said Harry Willcock...
When the cops tried to bar her way, she lied desperately: "I know him. I can stop him." They let her into the room. She leaned out. The boy had dark hair and a long jaw; his eyes were sullen, sly, dazed. He was standing on a sloping, twelve-inch rim of stone, his toes lower than his heels...
Richard B. Kline '53, injured in an automobile accident May 3 on Memorial Drive, left Massachusetts General Hospital for his home in Cleveland Wednesday. Kline, who was unconscious for three weeks after the accident, has almost completely recovered except for a still-mending broken jaw...