Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cattle pen near the gabled farmhouse. "How are things in the outside world?" asked the President. "They're driving me crazy about re-election," said Hagerty. "Let's break the logjam." replied President Eisenhower. "Jim, why don't you go back and grin at them?" Jim Hagerty did just that, and his grin made national headlines. It was confirmed a week later when the President subtly revealed his intentions to visiting Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland and Knowland was allowed to break the news...
...airy new suggestions for U.S. foreign policy. Said he: "There is even the proposal to send Mr. Dulles behind the Iron Curtain." From somewhere out of the back of the room a senior civil servant muttered something that sounded like "and keep him there." "Jock" Whitney broke into a grin and said chidingly, "Now, now." The whole room shook with laughter...
...performance might as fairly be lodged against the author or the director. Roosevelt appears too jaunty and gay when he is first stricken. Confidence and good humor did indeed mark his illness, but they are too extreme here and Bellamy does not convey the strain that F.D.R.'s grin must have been for him then...
Europeans had been inspecting him solicitously, cheered by every sign of vigor in his broad-armed wave or generous grin, but quick to note any slowing in his speech or in his gait. Around the table this week, NATO's chiefs of government watched Dwight Eisenhower and the nation he represented with the same commingling of doubt and uncertain hope...
Tony has also provided some of television's most memorable moments, e.g., as a bewildered teen-ager in Joey, and RCA Victor is turning out disks of his throaty warblings (Moonlight Serenade and First Romance). Says Perkins with an apologetic grin: "I haven't had three days off in a row for the last two years...