Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point of breakfasting with a state delegation. "I am not important," he told a group from Nebraska. "It is the basic belief that is important." To half a hundred Missouri delegates and alternates he used brisker language. "As long as we are in this thing," he said with a grin, "let's stick in it together and throw the stove lid at anything that gets in our way!" "I don't," he told men & women from Oklahoma, "make promises that a bottle of ointment will cure you of everything from poverty to flat feet...
None of the adulation seems to have changed Bob much. He likes to go to dances occasionally (he has no steady girl). He brushes off all discussion of his triumphs with an embarrassed grin. At his white stucco home in Tulare, just a good javelin throw from the local high school, he still shares with brother Jimmy an attic bedroom, a cluttered place littered with Bob's medical specimens (he once wanted to be a doctor like his father), his model airplanes, and a sign he once rescued from a rubbish heap: "A winner never quits and a quitter...
...bunts to become hits. Says Manager Jimmy Dykes: "Anyone who bunts against Shantz is nuts. Bobby comes off that mound like a cat at a mousehole. When he's pitching we have five infielders." Dykes's one "complaint" about his little lefthander is made with a wide grin: "The only trouble with Shantz is his frailness. He can't pitch every...
...with New York's ex-Representative Joe Baldwin, he and Baldwin traded lines from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Manning puts his best social foot forward dancing. He has standing orders with the chief steward to steer the best dancers in his direction. Says Manning with a grin: "The only reason I'm on these ships is that I can tango...
...flying instructor in World War II), bowed out in what was probably his final game with a Williams trademark: a game-winning home run. Terrible-tempered Ted, who never in his life acknowledged the cheers (or jeers) of a Boston crowd, finally, with a self-conscious grin, tipped his cap to them...