Word: jowl
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...year, the R.A.F. had bashed the Ruhr, plowing through the strongest anti-aircraft defenses the world has ever seen. In "Happy Valley," the R.A.F.'s ironic label for the industrial heart of the Reich, few bombs had been wasted, for the factories and foundries lie cheek by jowl for miles. And on their edges are the windowless homes of the Ruhr workers. Their nights were shattered, their work was impaired even when they went back to jobs in plants that had escaped blockbusters and incendiaries...
...meaning of their own souls. . . . The chaplain who talks to his men about God will be respected and listened to. The chaplain who uses his few precious minutes talking about the wickedness of shooting craps will be largely ignored. When men are living cheek by jowl with death they rapidly get down to essentials. Religion at war, if it is to win its battles, must likewise get down to essentials...
...Sande of the sulky circuit. Perpetual, no great shakes as a two-year-old, had won three big stake races this summer (the Matron, the National and the Historic). But Doc's colt had recently come down with a fever, was seen stepping around the track wearing a jowl strap only an hour before the Big Race...
...Louis got ready for his next knockout by visiting a Manhattan art gallery, having his picture taken cheek-by-jowl with Sculptress%Ruth Yates's bust of the present world's heavyweight champion...
...Republican isolationists: Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell, Mass., 59, fluttery, saccharine, gushing, with orchids and iron-grey curls; Hamilton Fish of Garrison, N. Y., 52, rangy, headline-hungry, with a brazen voice and a longtime suspicion of England; George Holden Tinkham of Boston, Mass., 70, bald, potbellied, with jowl-whiskers like a Russian droshky driver. Mr. Fish, veteran of many a skirmish with old Mr. Hull, and knowing that the Secretary's innocent, suffering face masks a hot-pincers talent of repartee, gave up the witness swiftly, but prodded furious, bulbous Tinkham in to violent questioning. Hull seemed...