Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Instantly, Moore moved in. Johnson took a short, straight right to the jaw, spun half around as if looking for help and sank to the canvas. He was up at five. The furious frown that the challenger had been wearing was gone now; in its place was an empty grin. Two vicious punches from Moore and even the grin faded. The fight was over...
...Tooling along a California highway on the way to Sacramento, he saw "the ghastliest hitchhiker who ever thumbed me. He rose on his knees in the ditch. His eyes were black holes in his yellow face, his mouth a bright smear of red like a clown's painted grin." Archer got him to a motel, but when the fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled, the detective was poking into as sordid a mess as hardened mystery addicts could reasonably ask for. Macdonald...
...people of the Old West. "Any of them would have ridden 30 miles to fetch you a doctor or they'd share their last bit of grub with you. But they wouldn't go to jail for you, or accept an insult," he says with a leathery grin. "The modern cowboy, good man that he is, is not my sort of fellow, jiggling about in a jeep through a West expertly policed and bustling with fences...
...dinner on the anniversary eve. Through dinner the scarlet-coated Marine Band orchestra played nostalgic songs from the days when Ike was courting Mamie, e.g., selections from The Chocolate Soldier; the conversation was full of sentimental remembrances. The song that stopped the table talk, stretched Ike's grin to capacity and moved Mamie to clap her hands, was Down Among the Sheltering Palms, a national hit in 1915 and still the President's alltime favorite...
...want to find out whether you are telling the truth, and you grin and smirk and laugh...