Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allen next tried choking off a human tumor. For his subject he chose a 76-year-old man with a large funguslike growth on his cheek, just in front of his ear. Working with Dr. Allen, Surgeon Robert Emery Brennan gave the patient a local anesthetic, punctured the skin around the margin of the tumor, passed rubber ligatures through these openings and tied off the arteries that supplied the tumor with blood. After an hour and a half, when the tumor had darkened slightly, the ligatures were untied...
...cheek-puffing and chest-swelling, his bellicose roars of Roman conquest from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia (TIME, June 17), Dictator Benito Mussolini last week did not hurl his Italian war machine into World War II in German Blitzkrieg style. He had entered the war not to fight so much as to share a victory. Waiting for that time, he naturally edged into action cautiously. He laid some mines, dropped a few bombs, fired a few torpedoes, started a few tanks rolling in the remote Somalilands (see above). His people were not spoiling for a fight and he appeared...
After graduating cum laude from Howard University, freckled Vunies Barrow, 23, sister of freckled Heavyweight Cham pion Joe Louis (Barrow), shuffled up to him with her guard down, got a stunning smack on the cheek...
...although he was in his eighth year as President, although he had moved, worked, eaten, laughed, exhorted, prayed in the intensest glare of public scrutiny; although his every facial grimace, the tone of his voice, each mannerism, the dark mole over his left eyebrow, the mole on his right cheek-although all these were public property, intimate to every U. S. citizen, still there was no man in the U. S. who could answer the question: Who is Franklin Roosevelt...
More aptly than cold Quay or Rabelaisian Penrose, Joseph Ridgway Grundy, who lives in and owns Bristol, Pa., for 40-odd years has symbolized in Pennsylvania the well-fed forces of conservatism. Mr. Grundy, 77, still rosy of cheek and twinkly of eye behind round gold-rimmed spectacles, with his round, white-fringed face, round little body, is a combination of Pickwick and Foxy Grandpa. Last week Mr. Grundy was resting in Florida, but with the full onset of spring he is expected back soon in the once-beautiful riverfront village which industrialism has made into an ugly mill town...