Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate on Larry King's interview show. Hardly anyone noticed, and the idea seemed dead. But then Clinton went on what amounted to a campaign swing for NAFTA; after he had finished a speech to factory workers in Lexington, Kentucky, last Thursday, the President, in his best jaw-jutting, finger-pointing style, issued a dare: he recalled Gore's challenge and said, "Let's see if he ((Perot)) takes...
...attack left Gilland with a fractured thumb (into which metal pins have been permanently inserted), a broken arm, a broken rib, a fractured jaw, a shattered wrist and multiple lacerations and abrasions, according to the woman and police reports...
Gilland underwent two operations on his thumb and wrist and was released from Cambridge City Hospital on Saturday. He re-admitted himself again three days ago for a third operation on his jaw...
Anthony Hopkins is Stevens the butler, the old bulldog of Darlington Hall. In the thrust of his Churchillian jaw one can read a declaration of honorable purpose; in his blue eyes one can hear the quiet bark, feel the dogged bite. Stevens lives to serve his master and to rule the servants. Upstairs his step is tentative and his eyes aim for the carpet. Downstairs, as Chairman of the Board, he has a sturdy stride and an imperious gaze. He knows his place all too well. He believes it his job to hear nothing while above, to surrender...
...huge billboard, Jay Leno's battering-ram jaw juts out over Broadway. AMERICA IS STANDING UP FOR JAY, the sign says. Maybe NBC hopes the nation's insomniacs will take a loyalty oath to keep watching the Tonight Show, and repel alien threats from David Letterman on CBS and Chevy Chase on Fox. So who's standing up for these guys? Bosnia...