Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surrounded by well-wishers in a noisy locker-room, Cleary sported a wide, toothy grin as he commended the newcomers for overcoming initial jitters...
Baker's popularity did not just grow from the toothy grin and Southern twang he carries in his political make-up bag. He inherited the power to attract followers from his father, who served six terms in Congress and his mother, who took the seat for awhile after the elder Baker's death. And when Howard Baker decided to get married he selected Joy Dirksen, a blonde midwesterner and daughter of the Senate Republican leader, Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Besides his political connections, Baker is a Republican, and eastern Tennessee is almost all Republican. And Presbyterian--just like Baker...
...Washington and New York, where his wife, who suffers from arthritis, still lives. A month ago, when the dollar was under attack, Volcker found himself marooned for six hours at New York's La Guardia Airport waiting for a place on the shuttle. Says one aide with a grin: "Perhaps he now realizes that with his current responsibilities, that's taking unpretentiousness...
...first Carter took the newsmen's repeated references to fellow Democrat Ted Kennedy with good humor. When a reporter made the increasingly common slip of referring to "President Kennedy," Carter responded with a grin: "I think it is Senator Kennedy." But when one young TV newswoman paraphrased a Kennedy criticism at considerable length, the President turned understandably testy. "Is this a campaign speech for him?" asked Carter. He then proceeded to give a pretty good campaign speech...
...even after a look at the corrupt side of America's courts, Jewison still believes there's room for Arthur Kirklands out there somewhere. With a wry grin sitting in his 10th-floor suite, he attested "Arthur Kirkland is somehow true to himself. Justice is done." And Atticus Finch lives...