Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probable starters in the backfield are Mel Govig, a sharp-passing quarterback, halfbacks Marion Cheek and John Schereschewsky, and fullback George Nager. A tentative line has Ed Felton and Art Warren at the ends, Pete Morrison and Bainey Coon at the tackles, Art Ticknor and Thom Kahrl in the guard slots, and Reuben Gittes at center...
...Women comrades must turn an indifferent cheek and pretend not to have heard Americans who speak to them. In dance halls, Communist girls "must never reserve a dance for an American; they should pretend to have been already asked by someone else. Male comrades must be ready to back them up in this...
...Watson's threat is unsettling. If fulfilled, it would set a precedent incompatible with the Harvard theory of education, a theory which includes as one of its essential features the freedom of students to form unencumbered their own organizations. No matter how illogical the situation, or how tongue-in-cheek its perpetrators, the Dean's Office has no business concerning itself with anything more than enforcing the rules...
...finest pieces of tongue-in-cheek writing I have ever come across in book criticism, may I nominate the anonymous writer who reviewed Kathleen Winsor's The Lovers [Sept. 15] for top honors...
...pelican's lower bill).*Finally, to almost no one's satisfaction, it was agreed to play 18 different varieties of the game. It was also agreed that a nation automatically scored a championship point for every game it entered. Spain, a canny host-"and with plenty of cheek," said one angry Frenchman-entered teams in all events and automatically picked up 18 points...