Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheek Because McDali's crutch has touched...
...Berlin songs are among his best. Although "Dancing Cheek to Cheek" has lasted longest in the popular car, "What A Lovely Day To Get Caught In the Rain" zips along and bounces in up-to-date style, and "Top Hat" itself makes most current production numbers look like minor-leaguers...
...heartthrob column much franker than Dorothy Dix's. (Recently a Nigerian youth wrote in to ask which of the four girls he was living with he should marry.) Zik, whose following includes several million Nigerians, says he wants immediate independence, but he may have his tongue in his cheek. One of his supporters, Ojukwu, a wealthy transportation magnate, says: "If the British were to leave tomorrow, I would be the first one down on the docks asking them to leave their shoes and their clothes behind. We don't know how to make anything and we haven...
...picture showed a Town & Country with its snooty tongue tucked in a still unwithered cheek. For its lead article, man-about-town-&-country Editor Henry Adsit Bull ran a 50.000-word T. & C. autobiography that confessed to a few youthful indiscretions: it had brazenly pirated the works of Dickens, Thackeray and their Continental contemporaries (a common crime of the time), even while campaigning for a copyright law that would make such piracy illegal...
With his tongue almost visibly in his cheek, Vishinsky said: "Adopt our formula, and there can be no disagreement. ... I hope the other delegations can agree that there can be no improvement to our proposal...