Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After many jolts to the jaw, a setback on minimum wages...
...moved periodically, and while most see what they consider to be the face of Jesus, others discern two kneeling figures or Jesus standing with a staffer the Virgin Mary. TIME'S Marion Knox, during a visit to Holy Trinity, observed "a vague impression of two eyes, a jaw line, a nose and possibly hair. It's perfectly visible, just as you can spot a horse in a cloud after someone has suggested it is there...
...almost ready to chalk the entire idea by Thanksgiving of his sophomore year, right after he Ken Nortoned some walking Walabbee from Milton in the jaw for snickering when he asked Paco to pass the Fritos at a party. Right then he realized he was a leech, like the guy in the Popeye cartoon who would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today, and who everybody knew was never even going to have enough money to pay for the relish. But still he was learning, he was watching these people, watching how they dressed and how they talked...
Traces of his fame are all around him. On the walls and tables of the big room are autographed photos of a younger Ted Hesburgh standing comfortably beside Popes and Presidents. His hair is less black now and his heavy jaw fuller, but he still has the handsome black-Irish looks of his mother. There is an inscribed silver plate from Jackie Kennedy and an emerald-studded ring from Pope Paul. He has become a virtual prince among priests. The sound of a Beethoven recording, a gift from the president of RCA, plays softly in the background...
...York City, where Carter is far ahead. The Chicago Sun-Times shows Carter ahead 51.1% to 47.5% in Illinois, but Ford appears to be gaining. Since the prize is still anybody's, neither candidate seems willing to try for a haymaker that could miss-and leave his own jaw fully exposed...