Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other Cheek. It is impossible to measure how much better, or how much worse, Jackie's first season might have been had his handicaps been fewer. It was not just that he was playing an unfamiliar position, or that at 28 he was pretty old for a rookie. He also had to turn the other cheek to abuses and insults. First he had to overcome the attitude of his fellow Dodgers, which ranged from mere wait-&-see standoffishness to Southern-bred hostility...
That kind of news item, and such headlines as BILL CAREY'S PANTS FOUND AT SABUTTUS, sometimes makes the 1,500 Down-East readers of the Lisbon Falls (Me.) Enterprise suspect that their weekly is pulling their legs. But his tongue-in-cheek reporting, besides winning Editor-Author (Farmer Takes a Wife) John Gould, 38, a reputation as a Yankee humorist, has brought his weekly 1,000 "foreign" subscribers from other parts...
...first ten days of the fair, $5,700,000 worth of contracts were signed. Germans, who had hoped for much more, were bitter. Said a grey-haired Siemens-Schuckert representative with a saber scar on his cheek: "Our labor productivity is down about 50%, our wages are frozen, our raw material costs are up, and we are expected to sell at a world market price...
Desert Fury (Hal Wallls; Paramount) is easy to take with tongue in cheek, impossible to take with a straight face. The story: Mary Astor, who runs a Western gambling joint, doesn't want her daughter, Lizabeth Scott, to take up with Gangster John Hodiak, who is acquiring a sun tan in the neighborhood. Burt Lancaster, a state trooper, loves her, and that ought to be enough for any girl. But there is no holding Lizabeth from love's false course until, in a frenzy of fisticuffs and old-fashioned auto-chasing, she realizes that Hodiak...
...Madison, Wis., University Student Bill DeHaven reported to the infirmary with a gashed cheek and black eye, explained that while lying on the grass with a lady friend he was scampered over by a rabbit...