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Word: grinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recruit seen crawling on all fours is depicted in another segment tied to a tree while a substance that looks like dirt is being dumped on his head. The tape from Somalia shows a soldier standing in front of a police station at Belet Huen and responding with a grin to questions about the peacekeepers' role in helping starving Somali children. ``There's no one starving here, O.K.?'' the trooper replies. ``This is where 150 people hang out and eat wheat. They never work. They're slobs. And they stink.'' Another soldier calls the U.N. peacekeeping mission ``Operation Snatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACISM IN THE RANKS | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...view of the outside grounds. As the garage's metal door slides open, he tucks a bulletproof vest between his body and the truck window and steps on the gas. "Once I start moving, a sniper can't get a good shot at me," he says with a defiant grin. "It would take a cruise missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Clinic Built Like a Fortress | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...exchanges in Budapest joltingly escalated the tensions to the heads- of-state level. This time it was Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin who dropped the big-grin, buddy-buddy act of their previous six face-to-face meetings and traded barbs. Clinton chided Russia indirectly for opposing NATO's plans to define the criteria for admitting Moscow's former satellites Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary by the end of 1995. NATO is the "bedrock" of European security, said Clinton, and expanding it will make "new members, old members and nonmembers" safer. And if Russia thinks otherwise? Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next, a Cold Peace? | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...acting is almost uniformly good. Cooper has assembled a lot of comedic talent. Steven Schardt is perfect as the obnoxious Vic Voom. He manages to keep a cheesy grin on his face for the entire two-hour production. Micheal Wertheim gives a wryly witty performance as The Chairman. Aaron Meyers, who plays Timmy and dances in most of the numbers, is a hilarious physical comedian, contorting his face and body into all kinds of impossible positions...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Weiner's Premiere Play Astounds With Its Ridiculous Humor Out of This GALAXY | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

This is a tender book. The outlaw Elvis, the performer one fan called "a great big beautiful hunk of forbidden fruit," the savvy, surly dreamer who once remarked to a reporter, "You can't be a rebel if you grin," is set forth here as a kind of perpetual lost boy who clung to the sure anchorage of his family and friends. But as the book closes, friends become salaried employees, and the hometown girls are outnumbered by stars flying in from Hollywood. Natalie Wood came to Memphis and lasted four days, stunned by the celebrity madness surrounding Elvis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Comet Over Tennessee | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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