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Word: grin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your faith." That was the sober side; the other showed a few moments later when supporters brought him a cake shaped like the country, lush with flags marking the states he had carried. As the bearers held it up, the cake started to slip. Said Reagan with his widest grin: "When that began to slide, I thought that maybe the world was going out as I was getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Reagan Coast-to-Coast | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...head shop is a freestyle hair salon called the Grin Reapers. Paul has another new name: Lofree. He wears temple-to-temple aviator glasses and designer jeans that inhibit circulation. His shoes are made for jogging, not stomping, and he drives a Japanese sports car. His favorite band is still the Doobie Brothers, and he can sing all the words to What a Fool Believes as he works on a blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dancing down the Middle | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...promises that an aide will call within a day or two. He looks for a woman in a sea of men in the audience. When a young woman asks him bluntly about mortgage rates and plaintively wonders: "Will I ever have a house?" the President flashes that still gleaming grin. "I think I'll skip the women and go back to the gentlemen," he jokes, eyes crinkling. And then he addresses the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Coming to Grips with the Job | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...take criticism with good humor and heed some advice. After the Washington Post reported that a TV correspondent had to search through hours of videotape to find any film showing him waving and smiling, the candidate walked out on a stage at the University of Maine with a big grin and a wave. Then he told the responsive crowd that he had just read the Post article. When a reporter asked in a Boston press conference why he could take days off when his campaign was lagging, Anderson bristled, asking: "Would you begrudge me one day off out of seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Finally Caught by Catch-22 | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...villain, he's a romantic hero. And Larry Hagman is the new Clark Gable, with that same mixture of sex, charm and cruelty, the same devilish grin-and the same sweeping broad-brimmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1980 | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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