Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials were notably absent from the stampissuing ceremony, however, and there was some uneasiness in the mostly black city over the near veneration of a book that stereotypes blacks. Butterfly McQueen, 75, who played the movie role of Prissy, Miss Scarlett's maid, showed up with tongue firmly in cheek. Handed an album of the stamps, she repeated her most famous GWTW line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies...
Both HBS professors Michael E. Porter and Steven R. Fenster '63 cold-called Spence, which faculty members often do to put students on the spot and insure student preparation. When no student replied, other students responded aloud tongue-in-cheek that Spence must...
...Senators behave. One old hand, 38-year Veteran Russell Long of Louisiana, immediately took to wearing dark glasses on the floor to shield his eyes from the bright lighting required for TV, removing his shades only when he stood to address his colleagues and the camera. With tongue in cheek, Senator John Glenn of Ohio pledged, "I plan to do nothing different." Then he took out a makeup kit, dabbed at his forehead and smoothed his thinning hair. One of the younger and more telegenic Senators who sits at the back of the chamber, Albert Gore of Tennessee, complained that...
...Celtics still have to play the Rockets, though with two to five games left in the tournament, Coach Bill Fitch was already invoking General Custer, and 7-ft. 4- in. Ralph Sampson, who caught an elbow instead of a break, had a seam of sorrowful stitches sewn along one cheek. "It's been so long since our team has had the bottom drop out," said Fitch. "The best basketball doesn't always come after you've been embarrassed like that." In the sweltering state of the old Garden, he need not have mentioned that "our running game disappeared...
...point-blank during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. The fatal date was Aug. 2, 1876. Hickok did not have a chance to draw for either a full house or his life. The bullet went in the left side of his head and came out through his right cheek, leaving a crosslike exit mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall was hanged for the killing, but in the Dexter version, the jury takes one hour...