Word: jawed
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...reluctant to flash his acerbic side. We were chatting on a Telluride lawn, and, after I'd taken some conversational flight at what he considered too great an altitude or length, he stared dreamily into the middle distance and wondered aloud, "Do you think that if I broke your jaw they'd have to wire it shut...
...Katerina Emmons, who was commentating for a Czech TV station, dropped her jaw, unable to speak. That's kind of a problem when you're an announcer. But in this case, silence said everything. "I was looking at the score, and thinking, 'No, no,' " she says. " 'Go away.' " She leaned across a rail to hug her husband. "The very first thing I told him was that it just wasn't meant to be," Emmons says. "I was like, 'What the hell is this...
...remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland. He was able to continue doing the show afterward but was forced to take another hiatus in June 2006, when the cancer resurfaced and part of his jawbone had to be removed. While he was still in the hospital, his reconstructed jaw collapsed and a blood vessel ruptured. Emergency surgery saved his life, but because of a breakdown of tissue surrounding the artery, he has been in a constant state of treatment and recovery ever since, which has affected his ability to speak. When he appeared at New York City's Gotham...
...because their stomachs have more room to expand), strategy (dunking food into juice or lemonade helps it dissolve) and controversy: when world champion Takeru Kobayashi was unseated last year by American Joey Chestnut, who ate 66 dogs to Kobayashi's 63, the Japanese nosher was allegedly hobbled by a jaw injury. ("I believed he was fully recovered," Chestnut said.) Top eaters train for months before a big event, and for good reason - this year, some 40,000 fans are expected to come watch Kobayashi and Chestnut face off at Coney Island again, and the winner will take home...
...Good-Faith Effort? As an ardent reader and fan of your publication, I am finding it hard, even 24 hours later, to close my jaw after reading your story on Tony Blair's faith [June 9]. How dare Michael Elliott refer to "the chattering classes of London'' who think of Blair as smug. I think you'll find this is a common view, echoed from Lands End to John o'Groats, and with very good reason. Blair's ideas detailed in this article bear little difference from much of his work as British Prime Minister; hollow, disingenuous and designed...