Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were set, plainclothesmen walked up the steps and pounded loudly on the front door. The downstairs lights winked on, and stocky, smiling, pajama-clad George Metesky, a 54-year-old bachelor, answered the knock. His two elderly spinster sisters watched warily in the background. George never lost his polite grin. "I think.'' he said after a few preliminary questions and answers. "I know why you fellows are here. You think I'm the Mad Bomber...
...spotted a Chinese sneak attack, made "the astonishing discovery that he was a born infantry fighter," and, together with a buddy, exultantly checked the enemy. t| On Dale outpost, a badly wounded lieutenant led an uphill counterattack and nightlong defense, next morning could still jolly his men with a grin and a quip: "I already have one Purple Heart. Now they'll have to give me a dozen." t| Two infantrymen, both named Smith, were cut off from their outfit, spent the night with a wounded comrade playing possum on a shell-swept hillside while Chinese attackers swarmed over...
...voters of the U.S. had made their choice "in a vigorous partisan contest," and partisanship "is democracy's life blood." Ultimately, "our cause will prevail"; until then, "there are things more precious than political victory-there is the right to political contest." And, said he with a wry grin, "as for me, let there be no tears. If I lost an election, I won a grandchild." (see MILESTONES...
...loser's traditional speech. J. Howard McGrath, Kefauver adviser and onetime Democratic National chairman, insisted that his man had emerged from the pasting unscarred, unscathed, even enhanced. "How about 1960?" some of the crowd yelled. Kefauver's sagging face lit up and split into a crescent-moon grin. "I'm just thinking of relaxing for the next two or three days," he said. "Everybody in the family's got bicycles, and we're just going bicycling for a while...
...exceed the Democratic vote. On behalf of his favorite son, Estes Kefauver, Politico J. Howard McGrath began a small salvage operation in Washington. Kefauver, he said, emerges from the carnage unscarred and running hard-"He's going in '60.'' Otherwise, said McGrath with an Irish grin: "It's a regular wake. We're lucky we still have the corpse...