Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balding, genial Frank Walker, chair man of the Democratic National Commit tee, last week returned to Washington from a month's political tour of the U.S., stuck his tongue in his well-rounded pink cheek...
...know what I figured, except to get away from him. The lifejacket was tied right at my throat. The Japanese kept clawing at my throat, trying to choke and scratch me. He tried to gouge my eyes out, and he dug his nails into my cheek...
...patient, plodding majority leader, Alben Barkley, stepped out of character as a loyal New Dealer, joined Missouri's Harry Truman in a furious attack on the Government's record in helping small business get war contracts. Said Alben Barkley: "I have held my tongue in my cheek as long as I am going to hold it there about this situation...
...question posed by the ukase was: how will it affect the fight on inflation? Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes stoutly maintained it was not inflationary -although it means a 30% increase in wages for all now on a 40-hour week. But Jimmy unquestionably had his tongue in his cheek...
...year, the R.A.F. had bashed the Ruhr, plowing through the strongest anti-aircraft defenses the world has ever seen. In "Happy Valley," the R.A.F.'s ironic label for the industrial heart of the Reich, few bombs had been wasted, for the factories and foundries lie cheek by jowl for miles. And on their edges are the windowless homes of the Ruhr workers. Their nights were shattered, their work was impaired even when they went back to jobs in plants that had escaped blockbusters and incendiaries...