Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lonely Alpine village the French mountaineers had ceased to speak of Bastineau. Some said he was "missing," some said he was dead. The cold, sphinxlike stranger with a dueling scar on his cheek (he said he was Swiss, called him self de Vaudois) was also curious about Bastineau. He wondered why so many peasants were knitting mittens with an identical, peculiar pattern; why peasants came from miles around to lay food on a lonely mountain shrine; why the old cure's sermons were almost unintelligible to strangers. Whenever Fenton started up the mountains in search of Bastineau, she found...
Tongue in cheek, the President asked his press conference: Had anything happened at home while he was away? The answer was a roar of laughter...
Goggling eyeglasses frame a swollen nose section above the round exhaust valve (see cut). The canister of protective chemicals is attached directly to the facepiece, eliminating the hose. Cocked on the left cheek, the canister is well out of the way, allows easier use of the rifle...
Senator O'Mahoney's rock-bottom argument was that, even if the industry is lily-white today, the Bailey-Van Nuys bill would be "a charter from Congress to do what they please in the future." Tongue in cheek, he also suggested two nullifying amendments to the bill, designed to make State regulation as effective as Federal antitrust procedure...
...self-sacrifice," from General Dwight Eisenhower. On her O.D. blouse Major General E.S. Hughes pinned the first Soldier's medal awarded a WAC. Then, though the regulations do not prescribe it, towering General Hughes unbent in the middle, leaned down and planted a kiss on the glowing cheek of Private Maloney...