Word: cheekes
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...long can we be passive and turn the other cheek when we get hit?" Bobbi Baker asked, and a lot of the merchants agreed. Jim Jacobs, owner of J. August, said, "I'm not talking about killing the grass, just getting rid of the weeds, that...
...final contribution, Pedrick, whose tongue is, of course, in cheek, suggests equipping the ball with an interior wire mesh. The mesh would act as a reflector, or target, for a portable radar unit stashed inside the golf bag. Thus the ball could be easily recovered if, despite all of Pedrick's technological aids, it went astray in the woods...
...city dweller, chewing tobacco is that atavistic lump in a baseball player's cheek. In Raleigh, Miss. (pop. 614), site of the National Tobacco Spitting Contest, it is sport and sociology, an art actively practiced and boasted about. Champions are finally selected, as they should be, in a tournament that feeds the folklore for another year. TIME Correspondent Peter Range joined the aficionados for the 16th annual national spit-off and sent this report...
Screaming boys line the spitting range, older folks crowd up in folding aluminum chairs, and the bleachers sag under the weight of several hundred cheek-to-jowl spectators as Don Snyder begins his assault on the distance crown. The 22 entrants spew down the range. There are three rounds, and Snyder on his first try comes to within a foot of George Craft's 13-year-old record. On the second round he narrows the difference to less than two inches. Then Snyder arches his last shot 25 ft. 10 in. for a new world's record...
...turn the world upside down, others just want to retreat from it." He looks so sincere and self-righteous, as if he were God himself speaking from the rostrum of the high school auditorium. Later, when he finds out his son is dealing, he pats him on the cheek, and then climbs down the stairs to call the police. The son gets off. Illegal search and seizure. That is supposed to be a tragedy. It may be the only hopeful note in a depressingly bad portrait of the young, not as they are, but as their enraged parents would like...