Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rested his ailing foot on a cushion, but he limped not at all, exchanged jokes on all sides and refused to sit down during the official picture taking. Old Mrs. Bill, who had been the palace housekeeper when George himself was a baby, bussed the King enthusiastically on the cheek and he returned the greeting in kind...
...attend to, and should not be acting like this." Retorted Izumiyama: "Who cares about the budget? I love you." Mrs. Yamashita rose from the table, with Izumiyama in pursuit. He cornered her in a corridor, vainly sought to kiss her. Finally he connected, but with a bite to the cheek instead of a kiss. Mrs. Yamashita countered with a right to the Finance Minister's head, then broke away...
...strongest influences in leading Gandhi toward Satyagraha was the New Testament. Said he: "When I read in the Sermon on the Mount such passages as 'Resist not him that is evil, but whosoever smiteth thee on thy cheek turn to him the other also' ... I was simply overjoyed . . ." Gandhi once wrote that a living faith in nonviolence "is impossible without a living faith in God. A nonviolent man can do nothing save by the power and grace of God. Without it he won't have the courage to die without anger, without fear and without retaliation...
...stores of squirrels, or woollybear caterpillars (TIME, Nov. 8). Mr. Weatherwise just hauls off and predicts.* How in tophet does he do it? This week, in the New York Times Magazine, Almanac Publisher Robb Sagendorph, who does business in Dublin, N.H., stuck his Yankee tongue in his cheek and drawled a few clues...
...executive mansion on his return from Key West. He would begin his second term in office in historic Blair House,* a 124-year-old, four-story yellow stucco house on Pennsylvania Avenue, which the State Department bought six years ago to house distinguished visitors from abroad. Cheek by jowl with it is Lee House, which the President will also take over. Workmen are already cutting out a connecting doorway...