Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vignettes of Texas. The elements of this story are a few dingy streets, a beerhouse, a room filled with "the winter day like dirty water," and five principal characters: a gawky young Texas artist; an aristocratic student from Heidelberg with a freshly gashed dueling scar on his cheek; a wolfish but pathetic landlady; Polish pianist; a browbeaten, impecunious professor of mathematics. Out of these Author Porter has carefully built a somber, horrifying picture of a country on the verge of tragedy - a leaning tower ready to fall at the touch of a strong hand...
General Charles de Gaulle sent a telegram to his onetime colleague on the Committee of National Liberation, General Henri Honoré Giraud, who had been shot in the cheek outside his villa near Oran by a drunken Senegalese sentry. The shot broke several of Giraud's teeth. General de Gaulle called for a "thorough examination" of the "outrage...
...British people and expect them to be followed literally as guides to conduct after five years of bloody war against a Satanic foe. And which texts are we to follow? What about Matthew 5:39-'Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also'? Should we never have gone...
Inductees' teeth are so bad, Major General George Lull told the American Medical Association meeting last fortnight, that if all the men with new G.I. dental plates were put cheek by jowl, there would be enough for 15 infantry divisions. (Last year alone, the Army Dental Corps drilled and filled 18,000,000 cavities.) The Dental Corps is still so hard worked that some stations have three eight-hour dental shifts a day and appointments for 4 a.m. are not uncommon...
Visitors to their latest (28th) show, at American Fine Arts Society Galleries, were stunned by a blitz of colors, jostled by a rag-tag army of sculpture. Female nudes hung cheek by jowl with Biblical allegories, surrealistic enigmas, affectionate rural landscapes. There were sculptured paintings, painted sculpture. Exhibits were price-marked from $5 to $10,000. At week's end there had been seven sales...