Word: jawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spinal columns, some vertebrae, two leg bones apparently from the same person, two leg bones from a different person and more swatches of hair. The bones were from at least three different bodies, and with the help of dental charts, experts brought in by the police concluded that the jaw bones belonged to two women who vanished on July 14 from crowded Lake Sammamish State Park, a scant two miles away...
...monied man. It plasters gold on its surface in true gargoyle style; the pictures too perfectly partake of the New Port pretensions they are supposed to reveal. The movie stands as a tabloid monument to social climbing America--too much of it too new, too raw-nozed, its jaw somehow too square and too set. So completely lacking is it in the distinctions of taste and tradition, so uneducated in the vocabulary of the rich that it could suppose the surface to be the sensibility. It is sweating with all the putting on of airs...
...William Casey, then head of the SEC. The way Mitchell told it, he was not obstructing justice, as the Government claimed, but helping it along-putting Vesco's people in touch with Casey so that they could discuss the case. Indeed, Mitchell defiantly jutted out his beefy jaw on the point. When the prosecution asked if he "willingly" called Casey, Mitchell said that he did it "gladly," emphasizing the word as though to indicate that he would do it all over again if he had the chance...
...detoxification center after one eight-day binge, she sneaked out to a bar, then, at 5 a.m., accepted a ride back from one of the male patrons. He invited her to stop at his apartment for a drink. She had to fend off a rape attempt, suffering a broken jaw and scarring cuts on the face. "I thought I'd hit the bottom before," she says through the wires that still hold her teeth together, "but now I realized that this...
...behind the hit man, a professional enforcer who solves the crime before he hires the punishment. As an investigator, Cogan favors the direct approach. He sends two of the boys around to "talk about things" with Trattman. When they stop talking, Trattman's nose, jaw and several ribs are broken, but his story is still in one piece...