Word: cheeking
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...darkly limned, Hardyesque story of conflicting generations in modern England; The African Witch is an authentic description of life in an African town. Herself Surprised is written in what is probably Cary's most congenial mode: the humorous picaresque in which a roguish heroine recalls, with tongue-in-cheek moralizing, the dubious deeds of her past...
...know that people who are about to be executed always indulge in talking to the minister." At this the maddened courtroom audience, broke into howls of "Schweinehund!", and surged forward towards Kappler's bench. A muscle danced in his jaw and the saber scar on his left cheek blazed crimson as carabinieri forced the crowd back...
...Ankara physician, consultant to many embassies, including the Russian. Late one afternoon in October 1945, a young man walked into Arcan's consulting room, pumped seven shots into the doctor and got away-not without being seen. Five eyewitnesses agreed that the youth was slight, fair and high-cheek-boned. Nonetheless, when heavyset, dark, round-faced Resit Merdjan confessed to the crime, the court barreled the case through, carefully refrained from calling the eyewitnesses, and sentenced Merdjan to 25 years. Slight, fair, high-cheekboned Hashmet Orbay, son of the chief of Turkey's general staff, who had been...
...minutes later, Governor Earl Warren, his wife and their three daughters drove up in two official cars. "Greetings, glad to see you," said Tom Dewey. The wives kissed each other on the cheek. Tom Jr. and twelve-year-old Johnny Dewey shook hands self-consciously with the Warren girls-Virginia, 19, Dorothy, 17, and Nina...
...Warren is out there watching what she thought was going to be a quiet performance this morning. Those kids of mine are going to be surprised." At the entrance to the hall, his three young daughters excitedly flung themselves on him, smeared his long upper lip and cheek with lipstick. He rushed on to the rostrum. Said Earl Warren: "I know what it feels like to get hit by a streetcar...