Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emory University Hospital hobbled a solidly built man, taking some of the weight off his artificial left foot with a cane. Doctors, nurses and other well-wishers burst into applause as he completed the ten-yard walk from his room. Charles C. Kilpatrick, 42, warned with a grin: "Not too loud or you'll knock me over." Unaided, he eased himself into a chair, propped his feet on another. Charlie Kilpatrick was going home to his wife and teenage son, after three years and four months in the hospital and 50 operations to repair the damage caused...
...Styles Bridges ("one of my very best friends") and Norris Cotton (who owns 10% of Goldfine's Lebondale Mills). Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne ("I knew him when he was mayor of Augusta"). Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo. "In picking winners." says Goldfine with a grin. "I've been very fortunate...
...hearing room of a House Post Office and Civil Service subcommittee last week, a reporter whispered a few words to Committeeman David Dennison, an Ohio Republican, who listened intently, broke into a grin and interrupted the testimony of Witness Arthur S. Flemming, president of Ohio Wesleyan University. "The White House." said Dennison, "has officially announced the appointment of Mr. Flemming as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare." Lean, painfully shy Arthur Flemming blinked in surprise, glanced hastily around the room as if in fear that there might be embarrassing applause. "Thank you, sir," he replied. "That's news...
...want a kewpie doll for my motorcycle," said a leather-jacket knight of the road, with a yellow grin...
...during Britain's finest hour, Old (83) Warrior Sir Winston Churchill, victor over an attack of pneumonia and pleurisy, returned to London with his wife after eleven weeks in Southern France. To cries of "Good old Winnie!" from an airport crowd, the onetime Prime Minister unbent for a grin and wave, bundled himself into a car flying his standard of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, drove off for more rest at his country home, Chartwell...