Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject may be disturbed because of unimaginable horrors perpetrated on his theta being in outer space billions of years ago. ("Things are as rough in outer space as they are here," says a devout Hubbardian. "Anything can happen.") If a subject has a pain in his jaw, it may be that in an earlier spiral he was a clam. If this pain is associated with fear of falling, he must have been a clam that was picked up by a bird and dropped on the rocks...
Kinsey is a solidly built man with greying, buff-colored hair in a short pompadour, eyes that vary between blue and hazel, and a sensitive, rather tense mouth above a hard jaw. His wife, whom he calls "Mac," was a graduate student of chemistry, and has been a great help. Being scientifically trained, she raised no objection at all when he started his work on sex, and sometimes she helps him in the office typing confidential documents. She teaches classes in swimming, runs the local Girl Scout camp, and loves the great outdoors...
...speeches, held few press conferences. To avoid the press while on the ECA mission in London, he went up & down the service stairs at Claridge's Hotel, and had his wife screen all visitors and telephone calls. He is sharp of eye and of mind, has a square jaw and a balding head, holds his middle-sized frame ramrod straight. A horseman and hunter, he has fine stables at his 150-acre estate in Lake County, 24 miles out of Cleveland, a stable of brood mares at Lexington, Ky., a training stable at Charlottesville, Va., and a plantation complete...
...Bonaparte, in St. Mark's Basilica, Rome, a photographer concentrated on the bride's family and produced a memorable portrait of three tense, dry-eyed, well-dressed widows: the bride's mother, Edda Mussolini Ciano, who stood in an old II Duce pose, arms folded and jaw outjutting: the bride's two grandmothers, Rachele Mussolini and Carolina Ciano...
...when Pa was looking for a job or "fighting the interests" during one of the dozens of strikes in which he was privileged to take part. Pa was a formidable and handsome man-tall, erect, curly-haired and with a straight right capable of breaking a man's jaw. Ma was handsome and formidable too-once she hit a slum bully over the head with a ball bat and knocked him colder than a brass casting. But there the similarity ceased...