Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...science believes that what it explores is absolute (whatever that may mean)," Professor Synge is sure that scientists will be treated as a race of super priests, shut away to perform their rituals. "Only when the human element gains the upper hand . . . can [they] relax into something resembling a grin. If the mysterious face which we glimpse through the darkness is our own, we can no longer pay it the old reverence...
Harry Truman seemed determined to take the whole responsibility for the firing. He exonerated his Secretary of State from Republican charges that Acheson was the real man. It was Acheson who had at first opposed firing MacArthur. What were Acheson's reasons? Political-purely, said Truman with a grin. Acheson said it would stir up a fuss, said the President, and he was right...
From a narrow corridor where engineers were dismantling sound equipment, a sudden flash of broadcast oratory from the General Assembly session at Flushing Meadows rent the air: ". . . Violations of sovereignty . . . third world war . . ." "Listen to him," said one of the technicians with a grin. "That's old Katz-Suchy, the Polish delegate...
...Truman had worn a harried and rumpled air during General MacArthur's three days of testimony before Congress. But when he appeared for his press conference last week, his navy blue suit had a knife-edged crease again and his shirt a starched and snowy gleam. The presidential grin had seldom been wider...
Though Bannister had run his fastest mile ever, had thoroughly whipped the best in the U.S., he was still not satisfied with his showing. Said he, with an apologetic grin: "I was rather expecting Ray to set a faster pace, but when he didn't, I had to go out and do it by myself." Then, with refreshing candor, Bannister added: "Had I been pressed ... I would have simply accelerated ... I think I could have done...