Word: grin
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...power and influence. He has made calculated silence his calling card. Whether in meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill or in sessions of President Bush's war council, Cheney, as a colleague in the White House puts it, "just sits there and listens with that crooked grin on his face. He almost never speaks...
...Diaz) they both have loved and used--with three stars at the top of their form. DiCaprio's winsomeness has matured into a wily assurance that doesn't rely on bravado. Diaz, stifling the giggles, displays a grave, bruised beauty. Day-Lewis struts with the insane intensity and twisted grin of early Robert De Niro; the Butcher loves the monster he has become...
With 5:20 left in regulation, he was whistled for a foul on Eagles’ All-American guard Troy Bell—his fifth of the game—and that ended his day. Harvard coach Frank Sullivan subbed in sophomore Jason Norman and Prasse-Freeman, an incredulous grin on his face, stood in front of the Harvard bench gazing at the scoreboard...
...contracted a mosquito-borne disease called dengue fever in Haiti and suffered severe headaches, chills, vomiting and muscle cramps. Erlich stayed home in Oakland, Calif. for the first two weeks of school. “It’s not treatable, so you just kind of have to grin and bear it,” he says. “It’s such a rare disease, no one knew what the hell I was talking about. They thought I had the Black Death.” But they lined up to buy curly fries anyway...
...some highly visible faces—the mysterious mug that is Gossip Guy, the ebullient blonde-haired beauty Rachel E. Dry, the deceptively innocent grin of gay-court-file-pilfering Amit R. Paley. But each week, while beers are slammed in the newsroom, a loyal cadre of FM drones works quietly in the basement, oiling the well-run machine that is our fab rag. FM stopped being drunk for five minutes to salute these FM heroes. God knows, FM would be lost—both metaphorically and literally—without them...