Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snaps a book shut and announces in truncated accents that the opinion he had read was from "Oliver Wendell Holmes." His quick-flashing smile is no smile at all, disappearing as swiftly as the sound of clicked heels. A young, black-haired, deep-eyed man with a jut jaw and a strong, handsome face, he looks improbable in rimless glasses and courtroom robes. But he thoroughly commands the attention of both tribunal and audience. His performance is variously moving, impressive, terrifying and persuasive. For it he has just been named by the New York Film Critics the outstanding actor...
Sitting beneath an ornate gold chandelier in a House office building, Missouri's Representative Richard Boiling set his jaw, faced the TV lights across a highly polished table, and said: "I am withdrawing as a candidate for Democratic floor leader. I do so because developments in the last few days convince me I do not have a chance to win." Reporters waited for a loser's usual call for party harmony and the conventional congratulations for the winner-but they did not come. Boiling was frankly bitter in conceding to Oklahoma's Carl Albert, the party whip...
...Folley had other ideas. Trimmed down to a rock-hard 194 lbs., he sliced Cooper's tender face with slashing jabs in the first round, split open his nose and left eyebrow. In the second round, blood streaming from his wounds, Cooper fielded a right with his prominent jaw and sank to the canvas like a tired swan. "It was a good punch," Cooper said later, when he found his voice. "I never saw it. I didn't even feel it. If I could have got up, I would have...
Since his appointment ten months ago as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, onetime Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams has made three trips to Africa, logged 75,000 miles pumping hands and poking into problems (and once getting poked on the jaw himself by an indignant white African). Last week Williams was up to his bow tie in Baedekers preparing for a fourth trip, when he suddenly canceled the safari because of "urgent business at home," In fact, the cancellation came on orders from State Secretary Dean Rusk, who is concerned by over-the-budget spending at Foggy Bottom...
...Moscoso's jaw-cracking new title: Latin American Area Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID). His rank: equivalent to an Assistant Secretary of State...