Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rounding out the varsity roster are fullbacks Terry Cheek, Tony Gianelly, and, of course, Cowles...
...gardeners. Latin America's famed leaf-cutting parasol ants, long thought to gather leaves solely for wallpaper, actually chew them into a pulp to make an underground compost heap in which to grow mushroom spores. When a parasol princess flies forth to mate, she carries in her cheek her dowry: a speck of mushroom culture to start the garden that will feed her thousands of future children...
...into a pocket for his own pen, then scribbled his initials on the sheet of paper before him. Suddenly it was over and the room exploded into mad applause; the watching throng-soldiers, government officials, reporters-crowded in to pound his back and plant kisses on his cheek...
What saves Son of Ti-Coyo from being just plain grisly is Clément Richer's tongue-in-cheek style, smooth, graceful and literate. A native of Martinique, he now lives in Paris, where he has twice been honored by the French Academy...
...Bilbo when most of the Senate refused to speak to the old man. He drew the loudest cheers of all when he promised: "We will not in this state see our segregated way of life broken down." When Gartin finished speaking, women rushed to kiss him on the cheek and men to shake his hand...