Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boyish charm, whether he was twitting himself, his wife ("You're not aware, not tuned to me; you don't handle me carefully") or his new dentist ("All he says is 'Hello, sit down, RINSE.' This peach-fuzz youth, with every tooth in his cheeky cheek, right off, mind you-RINSE!"). Nugent's bland mixture of pathos, petulance and salt was especially savory when he gave himself a frank appraisal, found his face looking like a "leftover artichoke," his teeth "dropping like loose buttons," his body "convex where it should be concave-or have...
...Congress' independent role leave them free to cut Administration domestic programs as they see fit. Ike's ballooning sentences at press conferences, his occasional vaguenesses on the specifics of current Administration policy, e.g., disarmament, China trade policy, civil rights, give the President's foes new cheek, his toe-the-line supporters in the House and Senate increasingly frequent pangs of sadness. Last week the House Rules Committee cleared the Eisenhower school-construction bill for the floor and-for lack of a concerted Administration pressure-certain death...
...Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, and durable old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who passed the time of day with his old colleague, thrust out his snapping-turtle neck to plant a buss on the cheek of proud Bess Truman...
...five-column picture showed Britain's Prince Philip in Denmark standing over a simpering nurse named Peggy Goodchild (see cut). But if the Express (circ. 4,042,334) knew what "caused the twinkle in the Prince's eye and the obvious blush on the maiden's cheek," it was not telling. Instead, it offered a ?100 ($280) prize to the reader who sent in a caption arch enough to "capture the mood of the moment in the brightest...
...under her thumb to seek sin with a beautiful blonde lady. In due course, for one reason or another, he and the lady, her husband's nephew and a lady's maid, the husband himself, and a family friend with four innocent golden-haired daughters, are all cheek-by-jowl or better in a Paris fleabag. Upstairs and down they scamper, in and out of rooms they dash, till the gendarmes come rushing in at the second-act curtain...