Word: cheekes
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...greeted on either side with joy. At airports in both Damascus and Tel Aviv, weeping, surging crowds welcomed wounded soldiers who hobbled or were carried off Red Cross airplanes. Kissinger himself celebrated the end of hostilities in the Israeli capital by unexpectedly planting an exuberant buss on the cheek of retiring Premier Golda Meir. Recovering her composure, Mrs. Meir chided the Secretary of State, "I didn't think that you kissed women too"?a reference to the spate of pictures showing Kissinger being hugged by Arab leaders...
Alvin Dark, 52, was not always so ready to turn the other cheek. In a distinguished major league career that spanned 14 years as third baseman and shortstop for six teams, including two seasons as captain of the pennant-winning New York Giants, he was one of the most aggressive players in the game. When he became manager of the San Francisco Giants in 1961 he quickly earned a reputation as a first-class thrower of chairs and pounder of tables...
Tests have revealed that a partially blocked carotid artery that had caused occasional numbness in his right hand and cheek for several months may have caused the stroke as well. Although at week's end he was able to leave the hospital, he will soon return for an operation to remove the fatty deposits that are clogging the artery, a relatively simple procedure that ostensibly should leave Daley in better shape than ever...
...Immigration officials at Highgate Springs, Vt., it was another case of radical cheek. Sarah Cousins, 24, daughter of Saturday Review/World Editor Norman Cousins, was accused of smuggling a fugitive across the U.S.Canadian border. Under a coat in the back of her car was Israeli Rabbi Aharon Ron, 47, convicted in the U.S. for conspiring to sell $800,000 in stolen securities. Ron jumped bail to visit his family in Israel while his case was pending appeal. Sarah and he met 18 months ago when she was a dropout. "He has been a constructive force in her life," said Cousins, relating...
...songs are not all pathos and bitterness. They are funny and boisterous too. The same Brel who can make you want to cry for sad old people can turn around, tongue-in-cheek, and say of timid people, "If you leave the world to them, they'll crochet it the color of gooseshit...