Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public passions. Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral, 58, was forced to resign this month after the press revealed his romance with fellow Cabinet member Zelia Cardoso de Mello, the Economy Minister. Their relationship became common knowledge after Cabral, who is married, and Cardoso de Mello, who is single, openly danced cheek to cheek at her 37th birthday party. Cardoso de Mello's love life had become the subject of speculation after a reporter spotted an engagement ring on her finger...
...year ago this month, in the midst of a similar budget crisis, TIME's cover, featuring a portrait of George Washington with a large tear running down his cheek, asked the question "Is Government Dead?" The answer was: Very nearly. Twelve months later, if a long-term deficit-reduction package is not put into effect, the answer...
...Style," remarks Cole, tongue firmly implanted in cheek. "The last word in fashion...
When the House last week turned back a constitutional amendment requiring the Federal Government to balance its budget, Republican Congressman Robert Walker of Pennsylvania issued a tongue-in-cheek challenge to his colleagues. "If in 1990, we can cut $19.90," reasoned Walker, "then next year we can muster the courage to go to $19.91." So Walker introduced an amendment to reduce the $50 billion farm bill by 0.0000000002%. (That would, however, have cut $10 or so from the bill; his figure should have been 0.0000000004%.) By a 214-to-175 vote, the bid to save the taxpayers that trivial amount...
...writes, perhaps with tongue in cheek, that he "has no patience with books so thick they can serve as doorstops; such excessive bulk, I feel, can only result from a lack of clear thinking." Sakharov's 773 page Memoirs would probably stop a door rather well, but it would be unfortunate if its length deters possible readers. Individual chapters can be read profitably, and the non-technical readers may wish to skip the chapters covering Sakharov's work in physics, though they do make fascinating reading for their portrait of the Soviet world of science, the scientific culture of publishing...