Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test ban hope seems, President Kennedy clings to it. Last week Kennedy was cheerfully telling visitors that things were going well for his Administration. Then one of his guests mentioned the test ban impasse. The President's hand flopped down on the arm of his rocking chair. His jaw tightened. He shook his head. "If we don't get an agreement this time," he said, "that's about it. That's the end. We'll both go right on testing...
Sensible Fiend. Her snow-white hair is cotton candy. Her bulbous eyes swivel in a deep pouch. The nose is impertinent, and her great fierce jaw is pillowed in an accordion of jowls. She has been called a "splendidly padded windmill." When someone looks like that, it is less an occupation than a duty to appear in movies. She has just finished three new pictures, The Mouse on the Moon, The VIPs and Murder at the Gallop. In the latter, she is Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, crisply telling the police, "I shall have your murderer...
...onto in life-and I've thrown the good bits away"; "I don't want another martini, I've had enough to float Fire Island"; "Sleep, rest, relaxation-where can I buy those?" Her acting, against a backdrop of Old Flame Dirk Bogarde's flexing jaw muscles and travelogue shots of Olde England, may be the best of her career. The most revealing scenes are onstage at the Palladium. On opening night she stands in the wings, fingers snapping, as her rapport with the orchestra becomes almost physical; then with a final...
...Japanese bullet came within a couple of corpuscles of ending his life at 25. A Marine first lieutenant, Freeman was leading a combat patrol of about 30 men through thick, enemy-rife jungle. From behind a tree about 40 ft. away, a Japanese soldier shot Freeman in the jaw. The bullet ripped through his throat, passing between the jugular vein and the carotid artery. Doctors doubted whether Freeman would ever be able to talk normally again, but he went through a prolonged course of speech therapy and, being an exceedingly determined man, developed into a strong-voiced orator...
...Cassius! Go get him, Doug!" the fans chanted. "Get that loudmouth!" And in the first round, Doug almost did. Cassius leaned back, and a looping right caught him flush on the side of the jaw. Clay's knees buckled, his eyes glazed, and he grabbed the ring rope for support. Desperately, Clay shot jabs at Jones's forehead-light, harmless punches designed only to keep Jones at arm's length, to survive the round. The second was even, and in the third, his head clear now, Cassius took command. He raked Jones with left hooks...