Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ehrenburg was the reporter. Haggard and looking fully his 55 years, not quite right in his shiny worsted, he was rather more bitter than serious--hitting at "the reactionary bourgeois press" (among other things) with tongue in cheek...
Then, on a gloomy midnight last December, especially irreverent and irresponsible vandals went to work on the bust with a hammer. Result: no nose, a gouged-out chin, a scar on the left cheek, a chewed-off ear. This, the London constabulary decided, was too much of a good thing. The memorial was covered with a huge black tarpaulin and three bobbies detailed to perpetual guard duty...
...second, there is that little group of shrewd men in high places who read with tongue-in-cheek and move no muscle of their faces as they inflict the cynicism of their own interests upon the policies of the nation; to influence such men without joining them requires less time but far greater skill and unyielding affection for the welfare of the multitude...
...Assault upon this second frontier is the sterner test of purpose; the danger is that you will begin to write with tongue-in-cheek, hence no more bite...
...first 5,000-copy issue of its melancholy bible, La Revue Doloriste, sold in Paris last week like gargles in wintertime London. The cult of sorrow and misery even took the spotlight from Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialists (TIME, Jan. 28), as staid Figaro gave it tongue-in-cheek recognition: "No school ever chose its hour better than this one. Every French citizen is an unknowing Dolorist.And Monsieur Gouin [France's Premier], perhaps, is also...