Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Palmiro Togliatti had listened with a thin smile flickering across his face. As Nenni finished, Togliatti threw his arms around him and they clinched in a cheek-kissing embrace...
This week, five days after the election, grizzled WLB Chairman William Hammatt Davis, 65, sent his resignation to Franklin Roosevelt. Promptly, two other public members of WLB, George W. Taylor and Frank P. Graham, followed suit. The difference between their action and all the customary tongue-in-cheek resignations which fluttered down, as usual...
John P. Marquand, shy, tongue-in-cheek, best-selling satirist, explained that he had changed from hacking out Satevepost serials to a novel-a-year pace to escape high income taxes, only to find that his system had backfired and he had to pay higher taxes than ever.* But he defended the one-a-year system anyhow, declared: "Few people realize how much good writing can be traced to the income...
Tongue in cheek, Moscow Correspondent Paul Winterton cabled London's News Chronicle: "With that spontaneity which is such a happy feature of the Persians at their best, 20,000 people demonstrated in the streets of Teheran, called for the resignation of the Said Government." There were other demonstrations in the northern section of Iran, occupied by the Red Army since...
...Ordered the Army to take over and operate the plants of the Farrell-Cheek Steel Foundry Co. at Sandusky, Ohio, where 600 employes have been on strike since Sept...