Word: jawed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During the silence that followed one of the committee members was permanently blinded as his eyes bulged so far from his sockets that they propelled at great velocity across the room and out an open window. The silence lasted until finally someone's bottom jaw hit the floor with a thud, and a thunderous laughter broke out in the meeting room...
...boss, C.E. Ogre. In a role-playing session with her classmates, she relives the scene: Ogre looms over Karen's desk, throws down her latest report and thunders that while she may pretend she's turned around the El Paso situation, she is not fooling him. Karen's jaw drops, her head woggles in disbelief, and her voice quavers, "Are you calling me a liar...
...appointment with Reagan to tell him about the proposal. Poindexter had testified that Reagan approved the nine points as a bargaining tool. No way, said Shultz. "I have never seen him so mad," said the Secretary. "He's a very genial, pleasant man, he's very easygoing, but his jaw set, and his eyes flashed . . . In that meeting I finally felt that the President deeply understands that something is radically wrong here...
Keillor, who is 44, looked owlish a couple of hours before the last performance. In his dressing room he slapped shaving cream on his jaw and said without bitterness, but also without any trace of regret, that he and Ulla were selling their house in St. Paul and did not expect to live in the Midwest again. This was a realization, he said, "that came to me with stunning finality." There was no unfinished business here; renovation of the World Theater had been completed. A brave man named Noah Adams, lately of the public-radio news show All Things Considered...
...torment or it might have thrown them off, although they showered me with sympathy and apologies after the show. The rest of my death was pretty uneventful. The bleeding soon stopped, and I realized that what in my initial panic I had thought to be a shattered lower jaw was in fact only a superficial scrape. I was kicked once or twice and stepped on, and had my hair pulled three times before the curtain call, but I bore it all with equanimity. The worst was over...