Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreed to meet privately with Britain's Selwyn Lloyd and France's Christian Pineau in U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's 38th-floor U.N. offices overlooking the East River. "I will be acting merely as a chaperon," Hammarskjold told Dulles. Said Presbyterian Elder Dulles, with a grin: "My understanding of a chaperon is a person whose job is to keep two people apart. Your job is to get the parties together...
Smiling tentatively at first, Nina Ponomareva let her features relax in a broad grin when she realized at last that the judge's words meant she could go home. Two hours later she was aboard the Russian steamer Vyacheslav Molotov, bound for the happy land where everyone is guilty, guilty...
...ring of a doorbell last week at thresholds in Florida and Massachusetts signaled the appearance of a short (5 ft. 5 in.), pudgy man with a disarming grin. "My name is Sam Lubell," he said, "and I'm trying to report the political campaign by talking to the voters." For his pains Reporter Lubell, 44, who has been ringing doorbells since 1948, has been bitten by three dogs, taken for a masher by housewives, a salesman by husbands, and once for a C.I.O. spy. But he has also rung a new bell in political reporting: by combining shoe leather...
...saved his biggest rockets to lob at Dwight Eisenhower and members of his personal and official family. Such pyrotechnics did not go unappreciated. Time after time, voices in his small but enthusiastic audiences cried out, "Give 'em hell, Adlai." And the new Adlai, when he heard, would grin and crack back: "I'm doing my best...
...Bowl to defeat U.C.L.A. 17-14. Of his last year's success, Daugherty is deprecatory: "I should give a lot of credit for last year's success to my staff. That's only fair." Daugherty waits until the listener nods approvingly. Then he flashes his broad grin. "I don't see why I shouldn't." he adds. "I gave them all the credit for what happened...