Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dismay of his three grandchildren at the delay, Ike quickly cut off a few slices and divided them among the kids as an advance helping. Asked why he held the bird in place with a small dinner fork rather than the usual carving fork, Ike gave an embarrassed grin. "It's already packed," he said, ready for the move to Washington...
Although Aldrich always meant to go back to the law, he found he enjoyed the starchy formality of banking. Once, with a wry grin, he told a friend: "I never smile south of Canal Street." Long an outspoken critic of New and Fair Deal economics, he served this year on the National Republican finance committee. Created a Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire in 1947, he looks on Britain as his "second home abroad...
...with his imitation of Kaltenborn's broadcast on election night, 1948, when Kaltenborn was stubbornly insisting that Tom Dewey was winning. Now the President's zip was undiminished as he mimicked the 1952 Kaltenborn hailing an Eisenhower victory. Only this time, said Harry Truman with a wry grin, the old boy turned out to be right...
Suddenly, Clasby bounded up with a grin. He was all right...
...work in a businesslike way. I have no desire to play with Cambridge politics," he states, "and if I have to bend with the political winds, I'm going to have tough sailing." So far, these political winds have been faint rustlings, but observes Curry with a shrewd grin, "maybe I'm on an enforced honeymoon...