Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Replete with rock jaw, twinkling eyes, and a booming voice that belongs in a Buck Rogers serial, the mild-mannered, sweatsuited track coach is slightly larger than life...
Harvard's 1-0 lead was erased seven minutes later, when Randy Ludwar of Moose Jaw, Sasketchewan beat Brian Petrovek at 9:20 after taking a pass from Eli captain Keith Miller. Within two minutes, though, Miller was on his way to the penalty box for holding, and the Crimson was headed toward a lead it would not relinquish...
...sheds the veneer of the grande artiste, Rostropovich projects an idiosyncratic blend of energy and joie de vivre. As evidence one need only glimpse at the man after the master class, hulking like a Russian bear in his furry coat, dignified, prematurely gray and balding, with a protruding lower jaw, pulled along by his prize possession and constant companion, "Pooks." Pooks, the effete miniature dog who accompanies Rostropovich everywhere he goes, was insisting that they be fashionably early to the post-class reception...
...from all that now in Waverly, Humphrey rises restlessly from his chair to pull a few dead leaves from a bouquet of flowers on the table. His face is somewhat puffy, his sensitive eyes watery at times, his neck baggy now under the thrusting jaw. But at 64, he looks fit -surprisingly so. Three years ago, Humphrey underwent a series of debilitating X-ray treatments for a bladder tumor that seemed precancerous. He had a severe reaction to the treatments and was flown from Waverly back to the Bethesda Naval Hospital. One staffer says he thought Humphrey was surely going...
...Offered the job again, John Wilson did not demur. He thus became a striking exception to the recent trend in university presidencies, which have been going to people in their late 30s to early 50s. Nonetheless, his appearance-a thick shock of silvery hair, bushy eyebrows and square-set jaw-belies...