Word: jawing
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...Councilman Scherer had seriously hoped that his surprise stratagem would keep Republican Rich in office, he was badly mistaken. Charlie Taft set his jaw, scribbled a few notes, rose to his feet and said: "Turning one's back is neither a characteristic of my own nor, I hope, of the Charter Committee. ... It has been my conviction for some time that one detriment to my brother's candidacy is the total inadequacy of his home-town Republican organization in its contribution to good government. . . . What I may be able to do in these coming months at the city...
...vibrato is a regular movement in the voice . . . coming from an off-&-on impulse of the diaphragm in tension. ... A tremolo is a very irregular movement in the voice . . . deriving from a fluttering movement of the tongue. As this movement grows worse it includes the jaw, larynx and, in advanced cases, the entire head...
...been plagued with political doubts, there was nothing doubtful about his parting embrace. When Nan held up her cheek he seized her fervidly, planted a lingering kiss which was repeated when she turned the other cheek. Less enthusiastic, Nan replied with a light brush of her lips on his jaw, and patted his shoulder. Then, his face frozen like that of a small boy who wants to weep but will not, he watched her climb into the train for Paris...
Suddenly, three yards away from me, a guard collapsed with a shriek, hugging his face, which had been sliced open with a pocketknife. Two other guards jumped at the knifer, knocked him to the ground, rammed the butts of their rifles at his mouth and jaw long after he was senseless...
...temper with an opponent and gave him a drubbing. The villagers knocked out three of my teeth and ran me out of town. All I had in my pocket was three francs, and of that I had to pay a doctor two francs 50 centimes for mending my jaw. I gave up wrestling...