Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next morning, a "very alert officer" from the Daytona Beach Police Department spotted the men's 1988 Pontiac station wagon parked in Daytona Beach early in the morning, Special Agent Bill Cheek of the Jacksonville, Fla., FBI office said in an interview Friday...
...romance of diplomacy! In France, Foreign Minister Herve de Charette gave Madeleine Albright five pecks (four on the cheek, one on the hand). In Moscow, Yasser Arafat one-upped him by bestowing six busses on Boris Yeltsin (three on the cheek, three on the forehead). A new warmth in foreign relations...
...shorts also jauntily ignore the rules of physics. In "High Diving Hare," Bugs Bunny remains suspended on a floating platform in mid-air. He turns to the viewer and says, "I know this defies the law of gravity, but you see, I never studied law." This tongue-in-cheek, yet outrageous approach creates a comedy so simple and rich that no child or adult should be able to withhold a smile...
...thought Madonna knew exactly what she was doing. She still defends even her worst career missteps, like her 1992 book, Sex, a collection of kinky erotic photos, which finally pushed her provocative public image one notch too far. "If you read the text, it was completely tongue in cheek," she says. "It was a joke. Unfortunately, my sense of humor is not something that a mainstream audience picks up. For me all it did was expose our society's hang-ups about our sexuality. Yes, I took a beating, and yes, a lot of the things that were said were...
...State Department spokesperson and Red Sox fan Nicholas Burns in a media briefing yesterday, issuing a tongue-in-cheek denouncement of Clemens' recent signing with the Toronto Blue Jays. Clemens' new three-year, $24.75 million contract makes him the highest paid pitcher in history...