Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days before the Really Big Rich, and few Texans could resist that sort of an appeal. Ma won. A rawboned woman with an American Gothic jaw, she looked as hard as a banker's heart. Actually, she was a college-educated, devoutly religious, well-bred woman who was about as political as peach cobbler. She was, above all, a dutiful wife. Her first act as Governor was to sign an "amnesty" restoring Farmer Jim's right to hold public office. (It was rescinded by her successor.) Though both Fergusons were teetotalers, they opposed Prohibition. In her first term...
Before long the moonlight is glinting off Peck's jaw as he leads a crew of ruffians up an unclimbable rock face in a pelting rain. Suddenly he slips. In best White Tower tradition, the man who grabs Peck's wrist is his blood enemy, a dour Cretan guerrilla (Anthony Quinn) who has sworn to kill him when the war is over. Quinn's eyes flash. Will he let Peck fall? Not, the viewer may be sure, while there are still old war movies left to anthologize...
...Loves (M-G-M). Laurence Harvey follows his square Lithuanian jaw right through Shirley MacLaine's bedroom window, grabs her by the shoulders and shakes her hard: "Are you so happy sleeping alone...
...five clubs all have good credentials, and broke camp with understandable confidence. The fans in St. Louis are looking for their first flag in fifteen years, but the Cardinals will be lucky to retain their spot in the first division. With Larry Jackson suffering a fractured jaw, the Card pitching staff looks thin. Behind Ernie Broglio and Lindy MacDaniel stand assorted hangers-on and voices from the past. Only former Globetrotter Bob Gibson stands a chance to bolster the staff...
...also compared comedy with farce. "Pure aggression lies beneath the surface of farce.... The one simple pleasure is hitting someone in the jaw without getting hit back... There is no time to feel sorry; people are too bus punching noses...