Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Merilee looking at Ada. Ada looking at Merilee. The whole story in intricate detail passing between them of how Ada abandoned the man with the black grease stains and the big jaw...
Merilee, honey, there are times when a man just can't give you all you want when you want it. His big jaw jutting...
...mister driving has an Oklahoma accent and a square jaw like one Merilee once knew. As they near the Greyhound Station in San Bernadino, she asks if she can kiss him goodbye. Doubtfully he says don't mind if you do. They are at a stoplight. Merilee leans over Girl and her sweet mouth covers the man's, drawing strength and breath and everlasting resolution from him. He is startled and the cars behind him are tooting their horns. "What was that all about, hon?" he asks...
...Firm Jaw. In June of 1968, Koster became head of the Military Academy. One gray day last week he stood on the stone balcony in the academy mess hall. He bore himself impeccably-back straight, jaw firm, every graying hair in place. Below him waited the 3,700-man Corps of Cadets, including his son, Samuel W. Koster Jr. General Koster told them that "action has been initiated against me" arising from his Viet Nam tour and that he was resigning as superintendent "to separate the academy and you of the corps from the continuing flow" of adverse publicity...
...similarity between the middle-aged child of the book and the Sir Guy Grand that Southern brings to the screen is purely coincidental. Sir Guy, an erudite industrial magnate with Oxford diction and an aristocrat's locked jaw, gets his slightly malicious kicks by showing, over and over again, that men chase money. In one of the very first scenes, Sir Guy gives a traffic bobby 500 pounds for eating the parking ticket so that he can smugly pronounce that "every man has his price." The rest of the movie consists of various anecdotal restatements of that same theme until...