Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collar and velvet ribbons -quite British and faintly Victorian. Lord Snowdon took the photograph of his wife sitting in the tall grass of what appeared to be a country meadow (actually part of their Kensington Palace gardens in downtown London), and there was a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek involved. Princess Margaret would soon be off to Tokyo to open British Week, a promotion-exposition aimed at persuading the Japanese to buy ?150 million worth of British goods next year...
...vigor of these home-stand evenings are preserved on this second live recording. Fluegelist Jones does most of the arrangements and conducts the crew, which includes Baritonist Pepper Adams, Soprano Saxophonist Jerome Richardson, Pianist Roland Hanna and Bassist Richard Davis. They give Mornin' Reverend a tongue-in-cheek but toe-to-floor gospel treatment and swagger to glory on St. Louis Blues...
...conviction that the only way to persuade the Arabs to end their border violations was to hit them hard and often. The U.S. maintains that escalation by one side merely causes escalation by the other side; the Israelis retort by asking whether they are expected to turn the other cheek to guerrillas and artillery. The U.S. points out that security for Israel cannot be achieved simply by holding onto territory; the Israelis retort that before the Six-Day War they were naked to attack by Syrian gunners from the Golan Heights, by guerrillas from the West Bank, and by Egyptian...
Novelist Jacqueline Susann deftly turned the other cheek on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, disappointing the sleepless millions who awaited her delayed reply to Truman Capote's allegation that she looked, among other things, "like a truck driver in drag." As the author of The Love Machine went through her chat with Carson, the subject never came up. Just as she was to leave, her host asked innocently: "What do you think of Truman?" "Truman . . . Truman," she considered gravely. "I think history will prove he was one of the best Presidents...
...then there was one of those god-awful family get-togethers--was it what's her face's wedding or cousin George's funeral (he was twenty-nine and died of fright)? Anyway, after fifteen minutes of kisses on the cheek and handshakes with good-natured (oh yes) ribbing about long hair and campus activism you realized the only way to survive was to get hopelessly drunk. And so, mellow and impish, you explained to your maiden aunt that it would be great to do away with marriage because it would end all discussion about pre-marital sex, and that...