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Word: grinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oklahoma Senator has been dared by Virginia Jenner, an underdog Democratic primary challenger, to grin and bare it: "If Kojak, Ike and Gorbachev can face the world without a hairpiece, why can't David Boren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Baby-It's-Cold-Outside Sympathy Card | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...zones around the world. Children as young as eight fight enemies they do not know for causes they barely understand. War does not rob a child of youth so much as it reveals his innocence: ignorance of death and a nervy imperviousness to danger, revealed in a boy's grin when a mortar shell falls close or in his eagerness to fire when instinct should tell him to duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Warriors - Afghanistan - Northern Ireland - Burma - Los Angeles | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...20th century fiction at Princeton University for seven years before joining TIME in 1972. "We found that we shared an annoyance at the academic approach to literature, and that we've read almost all the same books over the past 20 years." Gray adds with a self-deprecating grin, "Turow's reading tastes are impeccable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Jun 11 1990 | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...Georgia native typically slips into the manner of a practiced but informal public speaker, adopting a rock-steady, straight-ahead gaze when thinking--he never loses his train of thought. And not far from sight is a disarming grin, shot through with the confidence imparted by youthful success and good schooling...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Seeking Social Equity, He Keeps Integrity First | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

Anderson's father Don, a devout Christian who had contemplated entering the Lutheran ministry, instilled Sumner with a deep belief in an absolute Christian morality early in his childhood in Summit, N.J. Although Sumner is quick to point out with a boyish grin that he converted his dad to the Republican Party, he admits that his father is greatly responsible for his conservative politics...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Taking a Sharp Turn Towards the Right | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

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