Word: juts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Imperialism? Into the discussions came a theme that a new white imperialism, "different and more subtle," was rising in Asia. After several such references, up rose handsome, jut-jawed Sirdar Kumar Jagjit Singh, an observer for the India League of America. He suspected that these "dark hints of a new imperialism" referred to the U.S., and "would the delegates please be less vague and name the country meant?" None...
...test, scheduled for December 17th at White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, will provide scientists with valuable data regarding the course of both artificially and naturally portions of the upper air jut below the actual stratosphere. The rockets are expected co expel satellite projectiles which will follow their own orbits, Whipple explained...
...Just let me worry about the club," Joe McCarthy liked to say. He worried about it to such good effect that in 15 years the Yankees won eight American League pennants and seven world championships. But sometimes the owners had to worry about Joe. He was a chubby, jut-jawed fellow, quiet, a little distant, sometimes grumpy, the kind of manager who usually waited until next day, and the privacy of his office, to complain about a bonehead play...
...Jut-jawed Manager Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees, who seldom uses superlatives, wagged his head and said: "He made Dick Merriwell look like...
...townspeople of Fulton, Mo. (pop. 8,297) say there is no stopping "Bullet" McCluer. Short, jut-jawed, and effervescent, Franc Lewis McCluer has spent most of his 49 years in Fulton, as an undergraduate (class of '16), professor, and (for the past 13 years) president of tiny Presbyterian Westminster College. Bullet McCluer is a whirlwind of energy and salesmanship who earned his nickname, as an undergraduate, from the machine-gun force of his debating...