Word: juts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...words seemed to convey the utmost reasonableness. There was none of the jut-jawed belligerence of a Duce, none of the menacing rhetoric of a swaggering martinet. In fact, an ironic, Pirandellian sense of split realities was inescapable. Here was a former functionary of Benito Mussolini's last government denouncing the "totalitarian" ways of contemporary Italy...
Thomas, nicknamed "Popeye" as much for his heroic feats afield as for his jut-jawed resemblance to the cartoon character, was too much for the real-life sailors from Navy. Though off his customary dodging, quick-cutting form, the wiry (5 ft. 11 in., 170 Ibs.) Thomas scored one goal, set up four others and scooped up twelve ground balls-a skill roughly akin to recovering a fumble in a free-swinging football pileup. Backed by Goalie Les Matthews, who made twelve saves, and Defenseman Jim Ferguson, who meted out his share of bruises, the Blue Jays outlasted the midshipmen...
...SKYLINE at Pine Ridge, capital of the Pine Ridge reservation, rarely rises above two stories. In most rural towns, the stark, white church steeples would go unnoticed, but in Pine Ridge, they jut proudly into the air, as if straining to assume a rightful place in the Oglala culture...
...finished the scoring with 24 minutes remaining. This goal wasn't like the others it came on a lofting shot that jut under the crumble and over the Crimson goaltender...
...moonshiner's community, coal smoke rises in thin gray wisps from stovepipes that jut through corrugated roofs. The houses are mostly unpainted clapboard decorated with weathered old Camel and Chesterfield signs; many are on stilts. The yards are strewn with empty cans, bottles, cartons, boxes. Chickens peck around them and in the meager patches of corn and tobacco plants. At the moonshiner's cabin, the approaching car sent two barefoot girls scurrying to their mother, who in turn summoned her husband. His face was a study in seams and his hands were encrusted with years of grit...