Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parking lot in Baghdad filled with Iraqi soldiers blocking the exits hardly seemed the place for a "delightful unplanned camping trip." David Kay, head of a multinational team of 44 United Nations inspectors, had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when he used those words. But it is true that the Iraqis did not attempt to molest Kay's team. The inspectors lounged in relative comfort aboard their air-conditioned bus, played touch football and stayed in communication with the outside world through a suitcase ground station that Kay had rigged up to bounce signals off satellites...
Local listeners are tuning in news programs for updates on Cannon's status, and DOYLE WAS HERE T shirts have popped up for sale. WMYI, a Greenville radio station, has been broadcasting a tongue-in-cheek musical tribute to the famous fugitive ("What would y'all do if I broke outa jail?"). Police are not amused. "I don't understand the logic," says Hugh Munn, a spokesman for the South Carolina law enforcement division. "He's not Davy Crockett...
...free expression. But despite poor health in recent years -- his eyesight is failing, he wears a hearing aid, and he broke his hip in a fall last year -- he was determined to keep his seat as long as the likely replacement was another conservative nominee. With cantankerous tongue in cheek, Marshall would tell his clerks, "If I die, prop me up and keep on voting...
Wickham leans over and pecks his wife of 42 years, Gladys, on the cheek. "Wish me luck, honey," he calls, as a uniformed security guard lines the players up double file and marches them into the chandeliered casino, where 30 gleaming Super Seven slot machines are cordoned off behind red velvet ropes. Sauntering nonchalantly up to his machine, Wickham assumes a calm, assured stance as he awaits the starting buzzer of Round...
...Jalal Talabani, whose people have been betrayed, gassed, shot and forced into exile by Saddam Hussein, reaching out to the tormentor himself. There was Saddam, who once said he would run a sword through the rebellious Talabani before permitting him to return to Iraq, pressing his lips against the cheek of the Kurdish representative. It was enough to make even the most cynical Middle East watcher blink hard and move closer...