Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning, rested and fit after his vacation, he appeared at his desk in Denver's Brown Palace Hotel, called a staff meeting. First of all, said Ike, he wanted everyone to wear "a ready grin . . . Confidence is required in any battle. I'm confident and I want all of you to be confident. In Europe, I sent some otherwise able leaders home because they went around all the time with long faces...
Occasionally, Barkley forced a grin. Occasionally, he lifted his thick arms for the beelike clusters of photographers below him. But for the most part he remained motionless and impassive, his hands clamped on the stand. Behind him in the mezzanine his pretty wife stood, surrounded by applauding women, stared expressionlessly straight ahead. She licked her lips as if her mouth were dry. Then, finally, the uproar hushed and Alben Barkley began to speak-his vigorous, harsh, measured and practiced voice carrying to the farthest corners of the huge hall...
...Reassuring Sight. As the Democrats met in Chicago, this week, they welcomed Barkley's cheery grin, they welcomed his forty years of experience-but not enough of them welcomed his candidacy for President. They know that no team they could put together would match Eisenhower & Nixon in sheer popular appeal. But they also knew that they would have to face the cry that they were a party too long in power and they did not want to face that with a 74-year-old candidate...
With the embarrassed grin of a school boy, Old Soldier Alexander leaped to his feet and clambered clumsily over four other lords to his proper seat. Britain's primate smiled graciously and took his place...
...movie throws in a couple of production numbers from the Ziegfeld Follies, in which Rogers starred. But it is in Will Rogers Jr.'s performance that his father comes most alive on the screen: the familiar slouch with hands jammed in pockets, the unruly forelock, the sheepish grin, the shambling wisecracks delivered in his famous gumchewing drawl...