Word: jaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first and second rounds were about even In the third, Sharkey's left hand, quick and dangerous as a tiger's paw, be gan to flick Schmeling's nose. It nicked more frequently in the fourth and fifth, jarring Schmeling's jaw, stabbing his right eye. Schmeling began to come in more savagely in the sixth and seventh which was just what Sharkey, a smart counter-fighter, wanted. He moved away, boxing beautifully, stiffening his left arm against Schmeling's head, shifting so skilfully that Schmeling, in his eagerness to land a solid punch, several...
...Frank Merriwell, hero of boys' books by Author Gilbert Patten, he decided to emulate Hero Merriwell also. He got a scholarship at Denver University. While he was there, Jack Dempsey came to town. They boxed an exhibition match. Eagan gave Demp sey a hard punch on the jaw. "He [Dempsey] hummed the tune 'Everybody Two-Step,' keeping time with his whole body. . . . Then something fell on my head! It felt like a rafter from the roof. . . ." In the War, Eddie Eagan blacked both eyes of a top-sergeant named Boyle in his San Francisco training camp...
...down in a flat impenetrable tangle on the ring floor. Shikat's idea was to evade Lewis's famed headlock, and to tire him with leg holds. Lewis got one headlock, then another, but Shikat broke them both. Presently, he took to cuffing at Lewis's jaw with his elbow. After an hour and six minutes of grunting and thumping, both had reached the crisis of exhaustion in which serious wrestling matches almost always end. Shikat seized Lewis by his fat middle, tried to whirl him over his head in an airplane spin. This was what Lewis...
...Fearing the precarious financial situation would be aggravated by news of his cancer, President Cleveland had the operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht Oneida. While the yacht steamed slowly up Manhattan's East River into Long Island Sound, most of his upper left jaw and part of his palate were cut away. Five days later President Cleveland was able to walk ashore when the Oneida docked at his Massachusetts summer home. A vulcanized rubber jaw was inserted, his speech was not affected, Wall Street never knew. Not until 1917 did Surgeon Keen publish the story...
Readers of Time magazine were profoundly shocked a few weeks ago by a photograph of a man whose upper jaw, nose, and cheeks were missing; the photograph was from a little book called "The Horror of It," published by a group of pacifists to show the real, unheroic, revolting side of war. Pictures and scraps of poetry gleaned from the work of soldiers compose the book. It comes up to the standard of ghoulish horror which Time's picture promised, and it is admittedly not pleasant; it might even be condemned as morbid if there were not a saving grace...