Word: juts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the stunt is jut-jawed Editor John W. McPherrin, whose theory is that the corner druggist is, or should be, the "neighborhood statesman." He persuaded such traveling salesmen of ideas as Eric Johnston, Maury Maverick, Vincent Sheean and William L. Shirer to write the global think pieces in sixth-grade spell-it-out fashion. Altogether, it was a strange posset for American Druggist's publisher to push over the counter. The publisher: William Randolph Hearst...
...they could bury the dead. Said one officer: "The woods are full of Japs. You go through them, and they close in right behind you." The country is heavily brushed flats broken by precipitous hills honeycombed with Jap installations. On Hill 550, a long ridge from which sheer knobs jut at intervals, one knob held 30 pillboxes and gun positions...
...time-honored precedent of making a top party politician the Postmaster General of the U.S. got its bow from President Truman. To replace Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, the President appointed jut-chinned, 42-year-old Bob Hannegan, who had risen to the top of the Democratic National Committee in twelve years from a start as a Committeeman in St. Louis' 21st Ward...
...Should Bother . . ." The authors of Dillinger, both 30, are lean, bespectacled Philip Yordan and ebullient, jut-chinned William Castle, whose melodrama When Strangers Marry (which Castle directed as well as coauthored) was so well liked by carriage-trade critics last fall that it is soon to be rereleased. Of these white-haired boys, the one that shines the brighter in the terms Hollywood best understands is Yordan. Reason: Yordan is already up to his ears in the jackpot...
...whole-souled Democrat, and there will be no flirting with Republicans or independents from minor parties when jobs arise. Jut-jawed Bob Hannegan, his longtime friend, will now have a firm hold on all patronage...