Word: jawings
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...Psychic Bruises. Radioman Second Class Lee Roy Hayes, a gaunt 26-year-old, admitted that "I was not beat as bad as many." Nevertheless, X rays taken in San Diego showed that his jaw had been broken. One of the chief tormentors was a North Korean colonel nicknamed "The Bear," who worked over Hayes and the rest of the crew. "One day they treat you nice, and they are your big brothers," Hayes explained. "The next day, for no reason, it would be the opposite. Everyone was kept in terror, waiting to be beat. That was the worst part-there...
...displays of belligerent didacticism. The stage was his prize ring. The audience was his sparring partner. There he was-"poor B.B.," as he always liked to think of himself-lashing out with a bruising ideological left to the midriff, jolting the playgoer with some brisk truism to the jaw...
...patient opened his mouth, he thought of taking off his glasses to avoid looking at the steel glint in the dentist's eyes. But before he could, the rapid-fire, machine-gun-bullet orgasms of pain were exploding in his jaw. Jab! Jab! Jab! The patient jammed his eyes shut. His whole body was tight, as time after time he felt the needle piercing deep into his gums, driving its payload of novocaine into his bloodstream. "Just relax," he heard the nurse saying. The injections were done. He slumped back into the chair...
...asked for his military assessment. While other advisers listened silently, the President leaned on his elbow and kneaded his face. Then he shot a vital question at Abrams: "Has it reached the point where we could reduce the bombing without causing casualties?" Abrams looked squarely at the President, his jaw firm. "Yes sir," he said. If there was any single moment when Johnson finally decided to gamble on a bombing halt, that probably was it. Shortly thereafter, he put in motion the orders to ground the planes...
...Flowers about it!" Then, as the crowd noise mounted to a frenzy in the eleventh round, LeBow shouted: "Rocky connects with a solid right to the head! This is Graziano the street fighter, the great lusty, gutsy brawler! Rocky bombs a right to the face, a right to the jaw, another right to the jaw, and Flowers is down! Down and it seems out . . . five ... six ... no movement . . . eight . . . nine . . . ten! Rocky is jumping up and down, his joy wild and unrestrained...