Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words of the Scripture, are 'swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.' As long as I am President, that will be my policy." He pointed to the cross atop a nearby Episcopal cathedral and implored his followers to "turn the other cheek" when political opponents say "ugly things." "Forgive them, Lord," cried Johnson. "They know not what they...
...trial's end, there was a brief vignette that presaged what was to come. Dr. James Slater Murphy threw his arms around his lawyer and kissed him on the cheek. Mrs. Nelson ("Happy") Rockefeller, handsome second wife of the Governor of New York, stood in the corridor smoking cigarette after cigarette. "You are nervous!" said a deputy sheriff sympathetically...
...penny for every loafer). In their place these days is a sleekly feathered creature who swings her hair when she walks, wears no makeup, likes to go shopping in a suit that really has pants, and is apt to go dancing in a dress that suggests it be done cheek to cheek...
SPAIN has the most satisfying pavilion of all: a well-wrought building where cool, shadowy interiors lead to bright, fountained courtyards, an art gallery where Goya and Velásquez hang cheek by jowl with Miró and Picasso. With a stageful of vibrant flamenco gypsies and a choice of fine restaurants touting "eels from the River Tagus" and "mushrooms from the caves of Segovia," Spain outclasses most other foreign and state pavilions, many of which offer nothing more remarkable than displays of consumer goods and models of jute mills...
...flamboyant pose, exaggerated sword, and improbably wrinkled clothes express the rococo flight from reality. The far-off glint in his eyes suggests the coming romantic cult of genius, the idea that reverie is greater than reason. Fragonard even more daringly juxtaposes colors, such as the reds on the yellow cheek, without transitions of tone-a foretaste of impressionism. Yet the painting's casualness-revered in its day as sublime and picturesque-is a pure rococo attitude...