Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roar. By the fifth round, Johansson's face was tight with apprehension. Slowly, his guard came down to protect a reddening body. As planned, Johansson was retreating from an attack when Patterson caught him with a rising left hook that landed flush on the side of the jaw. Johansson rolled flat on his back, then got to his knees while Patterson leaned on the ropes and flashed one of the rare, broad smiles of his career. Wobbling up at the count of nine, Johansson was ready for the kill. With a pro's cold fury, Patterson hounded...
...Critic Monteverdi was not the only one to be exasperated; walking up to U.S. Abstractionist Franz Kline (himself a $1,600 prizewinner), Fautrier reportedly told him that his work "stinks." Kline's reply, so the story goes, was a realistic right to the jaw that dumped Fautrier on the seat of his pants...
...Baltimore, following a long commencement program at the Bryn Mawr School, Gordon F. Scheckells was rushed to the hospital with his jaw locked open from an excessively wide yawn...
...main program was devoted to four Beethoven sonatas, to which Richter added works by Schubert, Schumann and Chopin as encores. Swaying, gyrating, twisting his face into gargoyle grimaces, Richter at times lowered his jutting jaw until it almost touched the keys, at other times threw his head back in a kind of trancelike reverie. His bravura passages had a grandeur with no hint of pounding, his pianissimos a feather lightness, and his crescendos or decrescendos were so tightly controlled that they seemed to swell and diminish like the modulations of a well-trained voice...
...civic luncheon next day Ole Earl was back again, slipped into a chair next to De Gaulle and began to jaw into his ear. De Gaulle turned away and appeared to hear nothing. Miffed, Ole Earl stalked off, later left the hall in the midst of the ceremonies. De Gaulle noted during his polite speech of thanks that "the honorable Governor has unhappily left us before the end of lunch." When the house roared, De Gaulle seemed surprised...