Word: jawings
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...imports a certain select group of great men to be graced with new titles and immediately released to the world even fuller-fledged legends than before they came. For this is the time when academic sanctity deserts the cloisters of the American college, and when the square-cut military jaw or the hardened business countenance is to be seen under the mortar board of the Doctor of Letters. Generals, statesmen, merchants, lawyers, and engineers have their innings. They hear a few well-chosen words recounting their achievements and receive a few more letters which they will never use after their...
Asked what he had to say to future opponent, Lennox Lewis, Iron Mike gave us this jaw-dropper...
...WERE THE GUEST HOST OF THE VERY FIRST SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. I ONCE HEARD YOU SAY THAT WAS ONE PERFORMANCE YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY WATCHING TODAY. WHY? I'm grinding my jaw and clenching my teeth, and I remember the amount of cocaine I did that week, and it just sort of fills me with the feeling of a lost opportunity. Not that it didn't serve its purpose at the time. But it was an opportunity to really have something memorable on tape, and instead I have something that I sort of have to bear...
...initial reaction to the statement that I don’t have TV at home inevitably brings the conversation to an abrupt halt, combined with a dropped jaw or two. People often act offended, as if it’s personally injurious to them that this freak had to ruin the seemingly innocuous prime time-themed discussion. Then come the questions, demands that I explain myself. My reason for not having TV is not straightforward; it can’t be chalked up to religion or a hermetic lifestyle. Finally, my companions’ dissatisfaction with my explanation produces...
Scott (Val Kilmer), the Marine’s finest agent is assigned to the case. How do we know he’s the Secret Service’s finest agent? We know because his clenched jaw and impressive ability to appear wherever he is needed combine to give him an aura of determination and finest-agent brilliance...