Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cronies guffawed, and Libonati broke into a broad grin at the joke. That was last August, and he well knew that when the Democratic ward bosses of Chicago's seamy, machine-run Seventh Congressional District tabbed him as their man, he was as good as elected...
...Republicans' difficulties are complicated by national as well as regional weakness. Candidate Forbes said, with some justification, that he lost the election because of "sputnik, mutnik, and the sagging economy." Eisenhower advised GOP workers in 1956 to: "Never underestimate the value of a grin." But even the Eisenhower grin cannot eclipse the Russian moons or bolster the national economy...
From all the world's front pages last week flashed the snaggle-toothed grin of a stubby little muzhik-a peasant's son who in less than five years had emerged from relative obscurity to become the most amazing dictator the world had ever seen. This was no introverted intellectual like Lenin, no hysterical neurotic like Hitler, no brooding Byzantine murderer like Stalin. This was a cocky, ebullient farm boy-a man who could work all day, drink all night and, as he demonstrated again and again last week, jauntily settle historic issues with a quip...
...played a moderate, mediocre role, with the paradoxical support of organized labor and the L.A. Times --which doesn't hire union members. He blamed smog on incinerators instead of industry, and opposed a "right-to-work" law. He is a pleasant sort of a man, with a likeable grin...
...Dollar Grin. Abroad, the U.S. penchant for size and splash brings on snide cracks that the American car is the symbol of American culture: a "dollar grin for all the world." But the real experts-Europe's stylists-are quick to defend the U.S. car. Italy's great Pinin Farina, who designed the beautiful Lancia Aurelia and Alfa Romeo, calls American cars the most comfortable in the world. For the U.S., with its enormous distances and comparatively cheap gasoline, the big. powerful U.S. cars are well designed. The driver who hopes to slip into 50-m.p.h. expressway traffic...