Word: grinning
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...Unlike Card, McClellan gets little internal blame for the rough seas of the second term. McClellan kept his cherubic grin and low-key sense of Southern humor even when he was being rhetorically pummeled by testosterone-fueled correspondents. When McClellan?s Texas Longhorns were appearing with Bush to celebrate their Rose Bowl win at the height of the imbroglio over Vice President Cheney?s marksmanship, McClellan joked, "The orange that they're wearing is not because they're concerned that the Vice President may be there. Although that's why I'm wearing...
...Lucchino’s session in Kirkland, Cosgriff wore a big grin as he clasped hands with the Red Sox president. The rest of the room watched in choked-up silence, hanging onto every word of resident scholar and moderator Peter Emerson’s tribute to Cosgriff, Walsh, and Lucchino. Among Emerson’s remarks was an apology to Lucchino for shedding light on an act of poignant relative anonymity...
...Picture Gallery of Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth had just pinned medals on the athletes' chests signifying their new status as Members of the Order of the British Empire, and was strolling among them, chatting and laughing with their proud families. She was the star of the show, making people grin - indeed, sometimes erupt with laughter - her own face switching between that studied placidity that is her trademark and a really dazzling smile. After the Queen moved on to another clutch of guests, Ashley Giles, one of the cricketers, appeared starstruck. He is 33, used to the pressure of top-level...
...bartender Stefan Weber knows it too, and so he cautions me and the some 40 other "students" at the bar to drink plenty of water between drinks to ward off the dreaded hangover. "I am going to lead you into the realm of intoxication," says Weber with a mischievous grin. It's his job, as teacher and bartender, to share his extensive knowledge of "the pleasure of serious drinking," as he calls it, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style...
...Nagin says, reaching into a car to shake hands. An African-American man in dreadlocks hops out of his car to have his picture taken with the mayor in the middle of the street. "When hard-core 'hood brothers do that, sumpin? is up," says the mayor with a grin...