Word: jawing
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...kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder; he claims more symptoms than there are diseases. Matthau grouses that his fidgety roommate is "the only man in the world with clenched hair." A clenched-jaw finale finds the pair admitting that they are not meant for each other, though each may have learned just enough about himself to mend his broken marriage...
...amber hair, aquamarine eyes, and a figure of better than semiprecious quality. He has a resolute jaw, the physique of a football hero, and a smile navigators could find their way home by. Both look too good to be true, as if they stepped off a billboard or out of a department store window; perfect, full-scale replicas of any of a number of American dreams. Instead, Ann and Lloyd Hand answered a different casting call. In December Lloyd accepted a bid from the President to succeed Angier Diddle Duke as the Chief of the U.S. State Department Office...
...frail, carrot-topped youngster in Michigan, Vaughn took up boxing in self-defense, went on to win the state Golden Gloves title as a 124-lb. feather weight (and have his nose broken three times, his jaw once). Picking up his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1947, he spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a United States Information Service officer and as a coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961 he went to Washington as director of the Peace Corps' sprawling Latin American operation. President Johnson soon tagged...
...affectionate crowds that hung outside his house when he turned 90 in November, there was still an impish twinkle in his eyes, a pugnacious thrust to the jaw, a dash of the old defiance as he raised his hand in the familiar V sign. It was a valiant effort, for Churchill had grown ever weaker and more withdrawn in recent years. Denied his old pastimes of painting, bricklaying and racing a famous stable, he still found pleasure in food, drink and a meager ration of cigars, in feeding the black swans at Chartwell, his country manor, or reliving old wars...
...touch of regional patriotism, that the President has a "Southwest face." There is, says Hurd, "an overall regional cast of countenance. It has something to do with the eyes. Our sun is very bright, you know. But it's more in the formation of the mouth and jaw...