Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fermi proceeded imperturbably through the experiment, confident of the estimates he had charted with his pocket slide rule. At 11:30 a.m., as was his custom, he stopped for lunch. The pile went critical in midafternoon with the full withdrawal of the control rods, and Fermi allowed himself a grin. He had proved the science of a chain reaction in uranium; from then on, building a bomb was mere engineering. He shut the pile down after 28 minutes of operation. Wigner had thought to buy a celebratory fiasco of Chianti, which supplied a toast. "For some time we had known...
Last week's warmth brought a crooked grin to Grant's face as he sketched out his plans for the coming months. But all that was on hold momentarily, as he soaked up the sunshine that drew him outdoors for the longest period of time in months...
...Last week's warmth brought a crooked grin to Grant's face as he sketched out his plans for the coming months. But all that was on hold momentarily, as he soaked up the sunshine that drew him outdoors for the longest period of time in months...
Poster-boy Freddie Prinze, Jr. stars as the untried hero Christopher Blair who is launched into the forefront as the hero of the Confederation. Prinze, sporting a tiresomely defiant grin throughout the whole movie, brings little life to the character of Blair. He is teamed up with an equally shallow Matthew Lillard as best friend Maniac, a hotshot wild man and sidekick who does little to advance the plot. In fact, because of a trite dialogue, there is relatively little character development from the entire cast. Aside from Blair, the other characters may just as just as well have cameo...
...have never seen her smile so much, and there were times when it was hard not to break into a grin to match hers. The harsh flashbulbs seemed far away. In fact, ABC built a special set for the Walters interview, with lighting that mimicked a golden, late-afternoon glow. A British magazine ran a photo of Lewinsky knitting, another of her puttering in the kitchen. She lounges on a bed decorated with roses (an image reinforced by Andrew Morton's book, whose very first revelation is that "this girl likes roses a lot"). The publicity encourages...