Word: cheeking
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...Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines had just closed down nine months ago when the War Assets Administration began to get tongue-in-cheek bids for them. One jokesmith wanted the lines for piping grapefruit juice from Texas to New York. Another thought tough Texas jackrabbits could be profitably run to eastern markets since "anything becomes a delicacy if it is moved far enough." Even harried WAA officials took time out to join in the fun. Their proposal: start carbonated water through the pipes in Texas, spike it with bourbon in Kentucky, route the piped highballs through the "ice mines...
...tight cheek of the sofa...
...commend the book for its literary qualities. It contains enough gummed-up syntax to patch hell a mile. But as a study in the art of carrying water on both shoulders, of sophistry, of writing with tongue-in-cheek, and of intellectual dishonesty, I think it has no superior since the beginning of time...
...President rose in cap & gown, grinned proudly, put an arm around his daughter and handed her the diploma. Mary Margaret seemed a little flustered. But she turned, smiled again and kissed his cheek before she walked offstage. Her father's grin broadened at the solid applause which followed her and he looked up happily at the presidential box where aunts, uncles and cousins were sitting with Bess Truman...
This week, mourning its publisher, the Daily News for once did not speak with tongue in cheek. Its solemn self-appraisal: ''The most extraordinary exploit in 20th-century journalism...