Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President rose in cap & gown, grinned proudly, put an arm around his daughter and handed her the diploma. Mary Margaret seemed a little flustered. But she turned, smiled again and kissed his cheek before she walked offstage. Her father's grin broadened at the solid applause which followed her and he looked up happily at the presidential box where aunts, uncles and cousins were sitting with Bess Truman...
...loosed a popular hue & cry. Said Rio's Diario Carioca: "The poor were seized with panic, since it cut off their only convenient, practical, inexpensive way to care for their health." Tongue-in-cheek Columnist Rubem Braga, in Diretrizes, suggested "installation of public injection centers, thus permitting the formation of long queues which could join with all the other queues into which the population has been marshaled...
This week, mourning its publisher, the Daily News for once did not speak with tongue in cheek. Its solemn self-appraisal: ''The most extraordinary exploit in 20th-century journalism...
Herb's pirogue, built with patient skill by Uncle Emile, was made of heart cypress, and practically walked the water. Cajuns say that a pirogue is so delicately balanced that shifting a cud of tobacco from one cheek to another is enough to upset it. But skilled Cajuns cast heavy shrimp nets, go hunting, catch alligators and attend funerals in them without ever getting their feet wet. And they make them go much faster than canoes...
...Washington's Boiling Field, late that night, Manuel Roxas wearily ended a 45-hour trip, ducked interviewers, planted a kiss on the cheek of his Vassar-student daughter, Maria Rosario, and scooted off to bed. Next day, he began to scurry about the capital with the dynamic energy of a supersalesman. He relaxed, like a salesman, in smart Washington dining spots, with imperious gallantry kissed the hand of a singer while flashbulbs exploded with good will...