Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought it best not to have children. But now her mind was made up. "Nothing is more important to a woman than a child. I have always dreamed of a daughter for Carlo and me. I already see her little fat legs in a short skirt, straight hair, high cheek bones like mine and the constant good humor of Carlo...
Australia may once again prove too strong for the U.S. when they meet in Adelaide next month. But the Aussies are worried enough to try luring Neale Fraser out of retirement. And the Americans have one thing going for them: cheek. "I know these boys can beat the Aussies," crowed U.S. Captain Robert Kelleher. "It's just a matter of applying the right pressure at the right time...
Yale's 250-year-old urban campus was a particularly cramped site for experiment; over the years, an ever-growing university had to build on top of itself. Cheek-by-jowl existed buildings from the colonial brick of Connecticut Hall where Nathan Hale once lived, to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's dark glass box containing the university's IBM computer center. At one end of the campus is an electricity-generating powerhouse in, of all things, Gothic; not far away is a student dwelling, Davenport College, so eclectic that its street fac.ade is pseudo-Gothic and its courtyard...
Amid the furor, Adlai Stevenson seemed the least perturbed of all, calmly turned the other cheek and said of his assailants: "I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school...
...performance. At home only to sleep, Felsenstein works a 14-hour day seven days a week, spends months preparing a new production, and keeps the dozen operas in the company's repertory in constant rehearsal. His standards are as stern as the dueling scars on his cheek. In a recent session with a 68-year-old baritone, Felsenstein abandoned his instructions only when the old man collapsed at his feet in seizures of nausea. When a singer once demurred at a Felsenstein command to jump onto the stage from a seven-foot tower, Felsenstein jumped himself to demonstrate...