Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boom in peacemaking that brightened 1988 is continuing into the new year -- and into the new American Administration. The cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war is holding, and there is progress toward an end to the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea. But in the background of all the promising jaw-jaw going on at conference tables around the world is the muted but discordant sound of the superpowers bickering over which one deserves more credit for peace breaking...
...illegal assaults. Under guidelines sent to the country's 27,710 magistrates, attackers can be forced, in effect, to compensate their victims by the punch. Sample penalties: $84 for a simple graze, $168 for a black eye, $1,428 for a broken nose, $2,940 for a fractured jaw and as much as $13,440 for a serious facial scar. Said Home Office Minister John Patten: "I am anxious that the victims get a better deal." As for the bad guys, sock...
...with the journalist was no secret to intimate friends or later biographers, but her private responses to it were. And the dignified vulnerability she displayed during this period softens the austere image she cultivated during her 75 years. The regal bearing and the profile with its generous, slightly prognathous jaw remain intact. It is now possible to see with what effort, and after what struggles, she held her head so high...
Some disagree. "The coolest thing about Clay is his jaw," says a woman in Adams House...
...milking pit, Mike Brentz, a burly offshore oil worker, lifts a snake from a garbage can and places it on a small center table. Carefully he flattens and immobilizes its head with a hook and picks it up just behind the jaw. He sticks the tail between his legs to keep it from coiling free and hangs the snake's fangs over a glass beaker. When he squeezes, a teaspoon of venom drips out. Then he walks around the pit giving spectators a close-up of the snake's satiny pink mouth, its curved fangs, black tongue. When Kelly Head...