Word: jawed
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...declare his candidacy. "I don't think that is the thing to do," he started to say, but before the last words were out, something clicked and he realized it was the thing to do. This fellow with John Kennedy's forelock and Barry Goldwater's jaw changed his life and, who knows, maybe those of many other people, with just one word. "OK," he said...
There can be no such excuses or explanations for the other pace-setting labor negotiation of 1978, covering 570,000 postal workers. Those talks should come to a climax this week, and Bosworth's jaw-boners have been in on them from the start. The unions demand a 14% increase in the first year of a two-year contract, well above the 5.5% that the Administration has recommended for federal employees. Postal workers already earn an average of $8 an hour, vs. $5.51 for private nonfarm workers, and they enjoy a "no layoff' clause that the Postal Service...
...that. It was all good clean fun, with a generously self-righteous flair. Richard Nixon, whipping boy for the soul of America, actually did some good those four years. The man was a sparring partner for a nation struggling against the fat of Bicentennial complacency, always offering his glass jaw as a sacrifice to a nation worried about whether it still held the thunder in its looping left hook. Only now he doesn't fall so easily...
...center ring are The Shakespeare Bros., who do comedy, clowning, juggling and various other stunts, a magician who is nothing short of amazing and The Amazing Fantasy Jugglers, who are truly fantastic. These acts get started around 5 p.m. and keep it up almost all night. The magician does jaw-opening sleight of hand and his Houdini finale is incredible, even after the third time...
...smart-ass assaults me or my cigarette with scissors, spray, gubernatorial lemonade or whatever, that person is going to get a right hook to the jaw...