Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, we are told, is the start of a new era. Men who haven't smiled for twenty years are realigning their facial muscles so that they can give a good broad grin for "Ike" as he rides down Pennsylvania Avenue this morning. The newspaper publishers are throwing away their ready-made slugs of type bearing the words "fumbling," "bungling," "corruption," and "pinks," and replacing them with bright new slugs designated "honesty," "integrity," and "efficiency." The purveyors of the mass media have been congratulating us for some weeks past on how lucky we are to have a leader...
...wonder our bullfighters clown with the bulls nowadays," said he. "With the bulls in such a condition, anybody can get into the ring and caress the bull's muzzle and grin at the spectators while the bull is charging. The poor animal is like a man whose teeth have been filed down to the gums and who has to chew hard bread...
...little Pancho Segura was still dubious about the Aussies' long-range chances: "These guys got a lot to learn about tennis-all they know is attack. No change of pace, can't lob." Then Pancho broke into a wide grin: "I beat these guys any day-next month even...
...looking character for a man of the people. Yet he has written some of the most authentic Americana of his time, and numbers among his friends prizefighters, Chicago gunmen, waitresses, and a gambler who is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Full of bubble and bounce, he has the ready grin of the seasoned meeter-of-people. He puts on no airs, and has an immense interest in human beings, young and old, whom he treats with fatherly didacticism ("I should scold you very severely," he told a girl of a few minutes' acquaintance...
...devout apostle of protection, Edwin Mosler has a safe in every room, and another in almost every closet of his summer home at Deal, NJ. and his Manhattan apartment. "Better safe than sorry," he tells visitors with a grin. However, he candidly admits "no safe is completely safe. Anything one man makes, another can break...