Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mane slicked for the occasion, rose to open the Great Debate, prepared to defend his Resolution pledging the U.S. to participate in the affairs of the postwar world. But Connecticut's hardheaded, independent Senator John Danaher demanded the floor. John Danaher, his Republican tongue bulging large in his cheek, wanted to propose an amendment, denning word by word the vague terms of the Connally measure. Items...
...most biting, satiric anti-war crusade of them all. These were the confident college youths who knew their elders had botched the last war and the peace; they would not fall for the hollow gag of trying to make the world safe for democracy. With tongue in cheek, they demanded their prepaid bonus immediately, for a war into which they would not drag the U.S. The Chicago University chapter offered the slogan: "We'll make the world safe for hypocrisy." In a parade up Broadway, V.F.W.s carried death's-heads, the drum major a crutch. The campaign landed...
...German major general named Willibald Borowietz appeared and broke into tears. "I am a general without a command in truth," he said. "I have seen my division split in two and my Panzers wiped out. I have no Panzers, no artillery, not even a grenadier." The general's cheek twitched...
Always belittling, always knocking, Publisher McCormick has never offered a plan of his own. Last week, and with his tongue bulging his cheek, he offered one. In an editorial called "States Across the Sea," the Tribune pointed out that the U.S. Constitution provides that "new states may be admitted by the Congress." Then the Colonel said...
Slowly, with great dignity, handsome Governor Don Sanchez shook his brown head. The sun glinted from his high cheek bones, from his jet-black hair, from the strip of magenta silk around his brow. He stood firm. The engineers went away...