Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haste to turn the other cheek for nuclear peace, it seems that Christian Evangelist Billy Graham has bit his tongue by turning his back on the plight of believers in the Soviet Union. In his May 9 sermon in the only Moscow Baptist Church, Dr. Graham refused to acknowledge three large English-language banners unfurled by Soviet Baptists protesting the labor camp incarceration of Baptists caught preaching. He said nothing about religious freedom in his sermon but instead quoted Biblical references about the need for obedience to authorities...
Another often-mentioned tendency related to cyclical College discussions is losing not only a sense of history but also of context. Sometimes the trap of viewing "Harvard as the center of the universe" waxes tongue-in-cheek, like the recent save-the-ivy debate when one freshman Student Assembly delegate boldly dubbed it "one of the graver issues of our time." But in the discussions preceding the vote approving Harvard's incoming student government, some students writing and reading the constitution viewed it as a bold and pace-setting document. Actually, a survey of Ivy League student governments and some...
...metal harmonies of Muzak, bounces off the upholstery. They come to hear Jim's message, "You can make it too," and to have God heal their ills Bakker grasps a sheaf of prayer requests, closes his Teddy bear eyes, and allows a tear to trickle down his cheek: "And tumors and cancers and growths were literally dropping off your bodies...
Coupled with the knowledge that Washington turns the other cheek to the training of counter-revolutionaries in Florida, direct U.S. efforts to tumble the government in Managua lend credibility to the Sandinistas' claim that the recent Nicaraguan military build-up is for defensive purposes. They also unnecessarily heighten tension in a region that has more than enough to spare...
That heartfelt stasis is just what the best poems in this volume create. "How to Tell the Girls from the Flowers" moves from the peck on the cheek of its title into a brief and painful embrace...