Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chicago. Bolivia, grateful just to be in competition on the tepid shores of Lake Michigan, kept the Cup-holding Germans to a single goal before a crowd of 63,117 gathered in a great, poured-concrete tureen called Soldier Field. At the half, the temperature broke upon your cheek, hot enough for the back of a wristwatch to singe, and I, the only blue eye among distinguished Asian bleacher mates, remarked that someone could stir us and call us shabu-shabu. A mirthless response forced me to note that levity is a poor camouflage for the unlettered, even in sports...
...Richard Start, M.D. Itcontains the most disturbing, grotesque pictures Ihave ever seen, page after page of unflinchinglyclinical photos of people whose faces have beenmangled beyond recognition. These shots areaccompanied by case histories and the appropriate"after" shots, being after, as it were, a skingraft from the armpit to the cheek or the removalof a bone aberrantly protruding from some poorsoul's chin. The introduction says that it "is nota book to save or keep on the shelf. It deservescare ful reading by the practicing plastic andreconstructive surgeon." Indeed...
...made a few other week attempts at propaganda. Most notable was the strategically timed doordrop of the sporadic council Courier. Published with our term bill money, the council's publicity rag abandoned all pretense of neutrality, urging a "Yes" vote from all comers. If the council leadership has the cheek to use our term-bill money to persuade us to deliver more lucre into their coffers, then we a Dartboard have something to say to them: Congratulations! You have a promising future in politics...
...When a little baby is about to die, I bring the silence of death," she said. "When the fever just went so high that she was burning, I begged death to engulfher. As my tears fell against her little cheek, Irecognized the heart of death...
...British writer G.K. Chesterton once offered this tongue-in-cheek theory of human origins: "If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head." In light of the comic outrages and tragic absurdities of almost any given week of news, it's hard not to agree. Which is why the best news editors know that when taking stock of events, a little wit is no less important than a proper fund of sober intelligence. That's certainly the working philosophy of Bruce Handy...