Word: lockjawed
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...happened for the best, Sam. If Girl and I hadn't gotten lockjaw from being barefoot we would never have come home, I would never have met Alyosha and joined the South Coast Tribe. I would never have been there watching the stars at Palomar and you would never have found Girl and me hitchhiking to Ceres...
Virtually every U.S. infant born under a doctor's care gets three shots, spaced a month apart, of a three-way vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, or "lockjaw." Most children receive a booster shot a year later. Many get additional tetanus toxoid boosters in school or college-and, of course, in the armed forces...
...boots. The neat rows separating the plywood tents were given names like "Soul Street" and "Atlanta Street" while the shelters themselves bore inscriptions like "Soul House No. 1½," "We Shall Overcome," and "Girls Wanted, Experience Unnecessary." Children lined up for free inoculations against measles, whooping cough, diphtheria and lockjaw, and two vans for dentistry served kids and adults, many of whom had never before seen a dentist. Evenings, the entertainment was the finest in town-Jazz Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, soul singers and freedom singers, ripsnorting revivalist sermons. Everything was free, even a seven-man outdoor barber shop...
...improper address, sends around Cass Henderson (Gene Hackman), an irately appealing small businessman who has come to town to beard John Cleves. When Mrs. John Cleves drops in, Cass poses obligingly as Ellen's husband. When John barges in, all four characters fall sudden prey to lockjaw or dropjaw. Then the comedy slacks into matchmaking...
...successful. Christian Marquand has all the rugged facial angles that a hunter and sure-fire seducer ought to have. Only once, however, when Julien grins at the thought the angles. Long before the end of the picture, his fierce teeth-clenching turns into tame stolidness and a suspicion of lockjaw...