Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Terry Cheek won the shot and high jump, and took fourth in the broad jump for the freshmen...
...fashion against Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the London-educated Kikuyu who, settlers believe, is the brains behind the Mau Mau. Meanwhile, another tribesman had emerged as leader of the Mau Mau guerrillas. Dedam Kimathi, 30, is a stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel,* saw his old teacher hack...
...Terry Cheek is the team's virtuoso in the weights and distances. Against Dartmouth last Saturday, he won the shot put and broad jump, and tied for third in the high jump. Bob Blake is the squad's real high jump star with an excellent freshman mark of 6 feet 2 inches...
Royal Stroke. When the painted faces were properly cleaned, they proved to be meticulously accurate. Anne of Denmark (queen of James I) has blue veins and a pimple on her cheek. Edward III (d. 1377) is an original death mask and possibly the oldest European example, since the well-known death mask of Dante (d. 1321) may be a fake. When Edward III was in his last illness, his mistress, Alice Ferrers, ran off with the rings from his fingers. The shock of this betrayal brought on the stroke that finished him off. Neurologists consulted by Howgrave-Graham agreed that...
...Gregory the Bandit's pals, Tommy Gleason, walked up to Mickey in front of a waterfront bar & grill. "They seemed to be on friendly terms, and it seemed like Gleason was going to pat him on the cheek, but he had a knife in his hand and he cut him in the throat. I was standing outside there. Bowers grabbed his throat and ran back inside the bar, and Gleason jumped in a cab and ran away." Bowers and some pals scrambled into a car and gave chase. "They lost him in traffic. They were looking for him high...