Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interrupted me," said the President with a grin. "I don't know who the Democratic candidates will be next year, but I do know this . . . They will fight for all the people." This time the Democrats clapped and roared on cue. Said Navy Secretary Dan Kimball later: "There is no chance that he will not run ... He hit the middle of the ring [with his hat]." (Said Harry Truman, when a reporter put the question next day: "It wasn't my hat. It wasn...
...Cadillac 60 Special and 1938 Lincoln Zephyr. Wrote Connoisseur Drexler in an accolade that, by clear implication, also rejected a good many other models that have come down the pike: "These cars contradict the claim that the American public prefers what is ugly, gross, or even vulgar . . . The dollar grin, as the American grille is known abroad, does not represent our best effort...
...hour older, but much wiser, Irish Bob, the student whose cauliflowered face was capped by one of ring history's classic mice, gave the crowd a disfigured grin, climbed into his kelly green robe and jauntily strode out of Madison Square Garden's arena. Maxim's manager, "Doc" Kearns, invited other hopefuls to try deposing the champ some time: "We will fight anybody...
Boris Pascuniak's sensitive directing keeps the story probable and well-placed; he is helped out a great deal by a delightfully pastoral musical score by Bonar Gillis. The acting, unfortunately, is less competent. Jane Cruikshank plays the Snopes daughter with a sheepish grin, while Basil Mange is never convincing as the anthropologist-congressman who finally settles the inter-racial strife. "North Forty's" technicolor sheep are wonderfully convincing, however, and they leave the moviegoer with a true sensation of the old West...
...Hogan's third Open title in four years.* Almost in tears when a gallery of 10,000 broke into wild cheers as he sank his final 12-foot putt, Hogan relaxed into a victory grin and resorted to superlatives for one of the few times in his career: "The toughest course . . . and the finest round I have ever played...