Word: grin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...customer-service manager intoned the names of several dozen standbys whose stay in purgatory was over. A big grin from McConnell. Another from Joseph Young, 41, an amiable, heavy-set black architect from Philadelphia who had spent 2½ days in line. Yelps and dancing from Sharon Mann, and weak cheers from her friends whose names had not yet been announced...
...design: in concert or in conversation, he always seems like a scrupulous creation. The body, even relaxed, seems conscious of pose. The face?Leslie Howard sketched by George Grosz?can be nearly beautiful, but the mouth splits its sculpted lines when it turns up into a toothy, gratified grin, like Chaplin's as he watched a fat man fall. Bowie's eyes, always appraising, seem to look straight down to his center. Each is different, the right blue, the left gray, and only one pupil works. Hit hard during a teen-age fight, the gray pupil is permanently dilated, fixed...
...says Deane Bowers, assistant professor of biology and curator of Harvard's vast lepidoptera collection. Deep in the heart of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, her office is filled with frame after frame of the insects, and butterfly earrings dangle whimsically from her ears. "Checkerspots," she notes with a grin, "have a really bitter taste...
When it was over, actually over, an impish grin slowly spread across the intense visage of Harry Parker. He kicked his foot in the air and with a wide smile looked heavenward. And chuckled, as if he'd known it all along...
...explain the pressures that visit a man on the verge of winning a major championship. Why did Nelson bother? He found something appealing about Watson. Nelson did not approve of Watson's flailing swing, but he admired his aggressive manner, and says, "I liked his freckle-faced grin...