Word: cheeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy of Task Group Alfa). As a crack plebe quarterback, Jimmy Thach showed a remarkable fighting instinct, but he never made the "A" team: a collision with a husky fullback dislocated his shoulder, ended his football days. "What shall I do?" he asked the doctor plaintively. The tongue-in-cheek reply: "Try wrestling." Jimmy Thach did just that, made the wrestling team-and learned to horrify his bigger opponents by throwing his game shoulder out of socket at strategic moments...
...knew: "E pluribus unum, my friends, sine qua non, ne plus ultra, multo in parvo!" Applause resounded for miles; Jackson not only won the election, but also got an honorary LL.D. Or so says Allen Walker Read, associate professor of English at Columbia University, who tucked tongue in cheek and presented choice samples of fractured Latin in an address to the Linguistic Society of America...
NOVELIST ALFRED JARRY (1873-1907) was the inventor of a tongue-in-cheek philosophy named 'Pataphysics ("the science of the realm beyond metaphysics") and creator of the famed fictional character Doctor Faustroll, who is "born full-grown at the age of 63, navigates unendingly across dry land in a sieve." Author Shattuck sees Jarry as a comedian and wizard whose farcical wand-waving expressed a world in which Nietzsche's famed dictum-"God is dead"-was translated into a scandalous joke. Jarry enthusiastically drank absinthe and, near the end of his life, ether (he died...
...ninth, the Yankees had given him a 6-5 lead. He squinted at Tiger Pitcher Paul Foytack (Duren's depth perception is poor and his left eye is rated 20/200). Foytack threw high and inside. The ball cracked against Duren's helmet. Duren crumpled, blood streaking his cheek. At the hospital, X-rays showed no fracture but a mild concussion that will sideline him for a week to ten days...
...idle hour, Jazz Columnist Ralph Gleason of the San Francisco Chronicle staged a tongue-in-cheek interview with a fictional hipster named Shorty Pederstein. His old friend, he reported, had deserted the beard-and-sandal set of the Beat Generation, now boasted a Nob Hill address, clean shaves and tennis togs...