Word: cheek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thanked his doctors for repairing his facial burns. "Take a look at my face," he said. "Nearly perfect, isn't it?" Except for the eye pads, a reddish patch on his right cheek was the only apparent trace of the attack. "And to think that acid bleached the sidewalk," he said. The familiar Riesel mustache was missing, he explained, only for surgical convenience. Actually, he added, "acid makes the hair grow. I think I'll patent it as a hair restorer and sell it to bald newspapermen...
...Card for Drew. Thus fortified, Benson endures violent criticism with the demeanor of a Boy Scout leader (which he is) in a den of noisy cubs. He also turns the other cheek: last Christmas, he took pains to send a card to one of his most vitriolic critics, Columnist Drew Pearson, whom he studiously skips in reading the newspaper...
...molasses-voiced Tennesseean called a press conference, accused Adlai of "mudslinging and character assassination ... I am surprised and disappointed." But even in anger, Estes was careful to display Sunday school magnanimity. "I'm not going to engage in personalities," said he. "I will simply turn the other cheek...
...considerate of each other," she said in an accent that is neither Philadelphia, London nor Hollywood, but seems to have traces of each. "The way you are stamping on each other-it is quite frightening." But she never stopped smiling, and all the while three dimples showed in each cheek...
...Orange Free State. Then the Senate's only woman member, Mrs. M.D.J. Koster, spoke her thanks to the white race's savior: "Every white woman and every white mother thanks you from the depths of her heart." Deeply moved, Strydom wiped a tear from his cheek, then replied: "We must never be swerved from our goals . . . The struggle must continue...