Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What seemed to be the only moment of genuine emotion came from Chernenko's widow. While cameras discreetly looked on in long focus, Anna Chernenko kissed her husband's cheek and repeatedly bowed her head against his shoulder until she had to be drawn away from the casket. Fog horns and sirens keened as the coffin was lowered into a plot on the Kremlin Wall terrace, opposite to where Brezhnev and Andropov are buried. As the national anthem sounded, the red and gold hammer-and-sickle flag above the Kremlin was hoisted back to full staff and troops marched briskly...
...dual economy and culture in the oldest state west of the Appalachians. Mercedes sedans park next to beat-up Chevy trucks; private helicopters swoop down on quiet farmland; expensive restaurants spring up next to Billy's Bar; and Joe Bob the trainer, a plug of Red Man in his cheek and a splash of mud on his boots, rubs elbows with Texas wildcatters and Arabian princes...
...citadel of what young lawyers should aspire to. This office requires a higher standard, and you have demonstrated to me in your responses that you're not willing or able to step up to it." Meese flinched under the barrage. His wife Ursula wiped a tear from her cheek...
Some professors are apparently having trouble distinguishing between the official course review, published by students in cooperation with Harvard, and The Crimson's annual tongue-in-cheek appraisal of academic fare. The problem, they say, is that the official, survey-based CUE Guide is getting too subjective in its written summaries of what students are reporting in the course-end CUE polls...
Truck buyers are young-the median age is around 33-and about one-third of new owners between the ages of 20 and 30 are women. Joan Cheek, of Simi Valley, Calif., passed along her 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass to her son, and now commutes to her job at a hospital in a 1984 Chevy S-10 pickup. Says she: "A lot of women are driving trucks now. It's the thing." Cheek finds her truck handy for carrying groceries and hauling tree trimmings to the dump. She plans to add a metal cap (average price: $270) to cover...