Word: jowl
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...Boston society was invited to see the results of Mrs. Jack's labors. They found the palace as crammed with art treasures as that of a Renaissance prince. Mrs. Jack kept adding to the collection until her death, delighted in hanging such beloved contemporaries as Sargent cheek by jowl with the great masters. Sargent's El Jaleo (an Andalusian dance) occupies a specially constructed Moorish alcove in the palace's "Spanish Cloister," is illuminated by footlights concealed behind potted greenery...
...actually an attempt to reproduce language. Every syllable has its own tone, which the drummer must be able to catch by striking the hollow log at exactly the right spot. In some Bantu dialects, a single tone pattern may have different meanings, as in the pattern for moon and jowl. Thus, a drummer must know enough to add a qualifying phrase: moon becomes "the moon looks down on the earth" and fowl turns into "the fowl, the little one that says kiokio...
...that it would "voluntarily" dissolve itself. Secretary General Fritz Heller tried hard to make out that the move was only a strategic withdrawal-necessary to protect party members from Communist agents, who were supposedly threatening them. (In the past, the Reds and the neo-Nazis have been cheek by jowl.) But most Germans were convinced that the SRP was trying to dodge being outlawed, would try to continue to spread its poison underground...
Jane Barkley kept a sharp eye on the Veep's health, shorted him on his favorite hog jowl & turnip greens, and talked him into more salads, fruit and a slendering waistline. He still carries his railsplitter's shoulders as upright as a general, still has all his own teeth. Only his eyes are a problem: he can barely see without his thick-lensed glasses. Recently he came out of a successful operation for cataract and cracked to Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence: "You know I can see through a brick wall. The girls had better start wearing...
Stevenson looks and acts more like a hurrying, harried diplomat than a politician. Nearing 52, he has earned a small tendency to paunch and jowl, but he still gives the impression of slightness, and is light enough on his feet to play a fair game of tennis. His manner is lawyerlike, earnest and-sometimes patiently, sometimes anxiously-engaging. He has a rueful laugh, nervous and sudden, a tongue in his head, and a head on his shoulders. When he has a hard decision to make, he sometimes holds his head as if it hurts him. He has had to make...