Word: juts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worried. Their youth works for us," Marks said. "These guys aren't afraid of anyone. To some degree they break the mold--they're not typical Ivy League swimmers. They came to compete nationally not in the Ivy League. They jut know how to race...
...newspapers and magazines, the Apollo astronauts were portrayed as heroes in the old mold: God-fearin', jut-jawed, steely-eyed missilemen, gazing into the skies they would soon conquer. These brainy jocks with their laconic C.B. chatter and their diplomas from M.I.T., Princeton, Caltech and Harvard were icons of stability in a most fractious decade. Americans looked across the Pacific and saw defeat. They looked at their campuses and saw revolt; at their inner cities and saw flames. For inspiration there was nowhere to look...
Then the big U.S. military machine shifted gears again. As its troop levels reached 12,000 on the way up to 15,000, its power began to spread across Haiti and through the capital. The U.S. commander, Lieut. General Henry Hugh Shelton, a big, jut-jawed Ranger, told the Haitian leaders there would be no more police violence -- or else. Haiti's military chief, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, quickly agreed. American military police took to the streets, patrolling and even directing traffic, while U.S. troops neutralized Haitian army and police posts. There were perils: Marines engaged Haitians in a firefight...
North Carolina's Greensboro News cancels Dick Tracy after the jut-jawed cop dispatches a miscreant with the observation, "Violence is golden when it is used to put down evil...
...tailend of midterms and with the promise of vacation jut around the corner, Harvard students can barely balance their schedules, let alone their diets...