Word: jawing
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...next week, Nixon mulled over the WSAG analysis. He kept his counsel, but he was visibly angry. "The President was showing the cold fury which only makes him more determined," said a top-level man at State. "You could see the jaw harden, the eyes narrow and become more piercing." Another senior official put it less elegantly. Said he: "You could tell the old man had made up his mind he won't be screwed...
...bullets into John Taylor, 34, Northern Ireland's Minister of State for Home Affairs, as he started to drive home in Armagh. Taylor, who is boss of Ulster's security forces, was the first victim of a deliberate political assassination attempt. Though he was hit in the jaw, throat, chest and hand, Taylor survived after two emergency operations. But the murder attempt, less than a month after Bloody Sunday and three days after Bloody Tuesday, indicated that Ulster's cycle of violence was speeding up again...
...police, led by Frank Lovejoy, are firm of jaw but slow of wit, and lag far behind the audience in solving the transparent mystery. But no matter. Time makes this hokum endearing. Director Andre de Toth comes up with several chilling images-for instance, the faces of the wax effigies being put to flame and melting into mush-and keeps the action moving briskly along its hopelessly illogical course...
...left jaw, my neck, and the left side of my chest were numb for a few days after Princeton," Hevern said. "But I thought I'd be all right by the Brown game...
...lowered my jaw and scratched my head...