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Cannons to the right of him, cannons to the left of him, Flashy is back in the saddle again. Saber up, pants down, his wit a well-stropped razor, he careers through the fourth installment of his adventures as the British Empire's raciest, cheekiest hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jaws of Death | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...conquest, politics and business, Nicaragua for centuries has attracted the cheekiest and boldest of adventurers. Few have been cheekier, few bolder than the Somoza family, which for 31 years has, in one way or another, ruled Nicaragua. Last week, on the eve of an election that promised to install as President a third Somoza, chubby ex-General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Jr., 41, the opposition tried its best to trigger a coup d'etat. The result was riot and death for Nicaraguans and a narrow escape for a handful of foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Challenge to a Birthright | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...nation in this century has tormented itself as much as Germany. One war put it at odds with the world; a second war earned it incomprehensible guilt. German artists, though scorned by the Nazis, learned to turn the other cheek. The cheekiest was the late painter Max Beckmann, who wrote that he wanted to give "our fellow men a picture of their fate, and this can be done only if you love them." Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill could have supplied the words and music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Roar of Lions | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...attack appeared first in the Oxford undergraduates' own weekly magazine Isis. Then the London Daily Mail picked it up and splashed it into headlines. All in all, it struck proper Oxonians as one of the cheekiest essays in years. As might have been expected, the author was an American-a second-year Rhodes scholar at Magdalen named Eugene Burdick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yank at Oxford | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...present Freshman class at Princeton, which numbers 140, is the largest, cheekiest and altogether the most remarkable class that has ever entered that college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/23/1884 | See Source »

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