Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the President heard that, said one aide, "he clenched his teeth so tight that his jaw turned white." The reaction went far beyond personal pique: Carter and his aides took the speech as a sign that the Ayatullah had misread U.S. restraint as an indication that the nation was afraid to take any action. They agreed that he must be disabused of that notion. The President, who was spending Thanksgiving week at Camp David, returned immediately to the White House by helicopter for a late-afternoon meeting with the Special Coordination Committee, which has been meeting twice...
...have worked with the President have looked up at the man across from them and seen something physically new, beyond the natural changes of aging. They have asked themselves exactly what it is-the intensity in the eyes, or the mouth line, or the fractional shift in his jaw set? No one seems quite sure. It could be as much what he says and how he says it. But from both the White House and beyond there is testimony that he is more of a President...
Nearly as controversial as the sexual activity are the psychodrama sessions conducted at the ranch. A man broke a hand while beating on a rug-covered log to vent his anger. One woman received a black eye and a dislocated jaw after being hit in the face, and a month ago, another suffered head injuries in a fall...
...come to be more a hot shove league, a winter of discontent in which Martin almost inevitably ends up in fractious incidents. This season in Bloomington, Minn., the wiry Yankee got into an altercation with a marshmallow salesman who required 20 stitches to close an ugly gash on his jaw. Martin denied hitting the marshmallow man, but Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner decided enough was enough and fired his manager. It was Martin's second ejection as Yankee skipper, bringing his career total to five...
...fight almost erupted in the last two minutes as a discussion between Harvard forward Dave Eaton ended with a Brickell upper-cut to Eaton's jaw. The referees, true to form, did not see the punch...