Word: jawings
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...casts Katherine Hepburn as the Queen of Scots in a pretty free historical interpretation of how she wound up in the Tower of London. Miss Hepburn displays two emotions alternatively through the picture; her usual breathless unhappiness, and a dour sadness. She indicates the latter by quivering her lower jaw, an operation which resembles nothing so much as a successful attempt to suppress a sneeze...
...corner, Manager Kearns kept up a stream of chatter: "Step back. Get out of it, Joey." His fighter, one ear cocked for instructions, did as he was told. In the seventh, Joey got the go-ahead signal. He began exploding left hooks and right crosses against Mills's jaw. He loosened two of Freddie's teeth; the champ's handlers fished them out of his mouth after the round. They fished out a third tooth after the eighth...
...Trip, Open-Jaw means travel which is essentially of a round-trip nature but the outward point of departure and inward point of arrival and/or outward point of arrival and inward point of departure of which are not the same...
When the Episcopal General Convention of 1943 set a compulsory retirement age of 72 for bishops, Bishop Manning, then 77, set his jaw, insisted that the convention's ruling could not be retroactive. He promised his parishioners that he would "continue to serve you as your bishop as long as I am given sufficient health and strength." Three years later, declining in health and full of years, he resigned...
...stores, was found slain today in the fur storage vault of the company's main office in Cambridge. Chief of Detectives Patrick J. Ready said the elderly Shea was apparently ambushed inside the building, forced to open the vault which contained money and furs, and then slugged on the jaw...