Word: jawed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...between the padded tables and weight machines. For just a moment, you can imagine they are dancing. And then the time comes when Reed steps back and she's on her own, as if she's walking a wide tightrope, careful, dangerous. "Good, Jessi"--her hands are fists, her jaw is set--"keep going," and you sense she is counting the steps under her breath...
...next. Pulling down the shutters of his shop, he ran out the back door with his wife and four children, just before bullets and mortar shells burst into every store in the Tamil-dominated village. For the next 13 years, Singham, now a 56-year-old with a clenched jaw, gleaming eyes and a look of reptilian toughness, took refuge with his family in the nearby village of Mallavi while Mankulam was repeatedly ravaged by the civil war. In May, Singham finally came home. He and his 20-year-old son, Ramanan, rolled up the shutters of the shop, swept...
...came out, one of their forwards came in and I got a forehead to my jaw,” Johnson said...
...don’t think I have a concussion,” Johnson said. “I think I might have a dislocated jaw. I felt pretty dizzy. I’ve still got a headache—it hurts...
...Frank. Maybe it was Davis' broken home or his height (5 ft. 6 in. in his tap shoes) or his funny face, all big nose and jutting jaw, or the car crash that took his left eye, but Davis was a howling void of insecurity that drowned out all other emotion. He craved affection, especially from white people, preferably famous, preferably Frank. In Haygood's telling, Davis' marriages, his compulsive gift giving, his surprising conversion to Judaism, even his support for the civil rights movement, all play like bids for applause, just another snappy routine...