Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheik, according to Rivas, slapped him across the face, inflicting what Rivas' lawyers call "an ear injury and trauma to the right cheek...
...most enduring characters of European folklore is the gnome, a gnarled night creature who lives for centuries, stands only 6 in. when full grown but is seven times stronger than man. With exhilarating wit and tongue-in-cheek charm, Dutch Physician Wil Huygen and Illustrator Rien Poortvliet put together a mock sociological history of the gnome that is proving to be an astonishing money spinner. Ponderously titled leven en werken van de Kabouter (The Life and Work of the Gnomes) in The Netherlands, the book is a spoof that solemnly reports that, among other things, Mozart's gnome...
...statistics, like a man surveying an escape route from Brooklyn he is not sure he can ever take. His girl?the one he has been trying unsuccessfully to put the make on?hears the longing and the edge of desperation in his voice and kisses him on the cheek. He makes no move toward her, does not, in fact, even look at her. His eyes are full, and he is crying. Travolta says now that the welling tears surprised him as much as anyone else, and they may be a sentimental, softening gesture toward his character. But they also make...
Almost unanimously, Israelis seemed to agree. Despite some urgings for restraint from the U.S. and from Sadat, the Israelis were in no mood to turn the other cheek. Leaders of all Israeli political parties agreed to a Knesset statement declaring that terrorist organizations must be attacked and "exterminated." The occasion called forth a volley of extremist oratory; a small nationalist sect headed by Rabbi Meir Kahane, for instance, openly demanded the expulsion of all Palestinians from Israel, including the 574,000 who are Israeli citizens...
That is not to say that in light of the realities of the Mideast some form of Israeli reprisal would not have been understandable after the brutal, peace-shattering Palestinian terrorist attack. Israel could hardly have been expected to undertake a calm, turn-the-other-cheek response to yet another materialization of a threat they have long encountered...