Word: cheeking
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...second, there is that little group of shrewd men in high places who read with tongue-in-cheek and move no muscle of their faces as they inflict the cynicism of their own interests upon the policies of the nation; to influence such men without joining them requires less time but far greater skill and unyielding affection for the welfare of the multitude...
...Assault upon this second frontier is the sterner test of purpose; the danger is that you will begin to write with tongue-in-cheek, hence no more bite...
...first 5,000-copy issue of its melancholy bible, La Revue Doloriste, sold in Paris last week like gargles in wintertime London. The cult of sorrow and misery even took the spotlight from Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialists (TIME, Jan. 28), as staid Figaro gave it tongue-in-cheek recognition: "No school ever chose its hour better than this one. Every French citizen is an unknowing Dolorist.And Monsieur Gouin [France's Premier], perhaps, is also...
...council will have no enforcement powers: it will have to stand on the prestige and good sense of its members. In setting it up, many a Congressman acted with tongue in cheek: the council could easily become a national cartoon subject...
Government documents, said the Etonian editors, are rank with verbiage, due to "a popular misconception that to use long words is a sign of an expensive education. . . . We prefer a homely remark such as 'You've got some cheek, Bert' to 'Herbert, you are suffering from an inverted inferiority complex...