Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman was charming the visiting editors right down out of the masthead. Though he had often upbraided the editors as heatedly as Franklin Roosevelt, he smoothly refused the chance to deliver a scolding in person. He had no specific complaints today, said Harry Truman with a disarming grin. Then one of the editors asked the day's sharpest question: "Mr. President, if it is proper to seize the steel mills, can you in your opinion seize the newspapers and radio stations?" Replied the President: Under similar circumstances, the President has to act for whatever is for the best interests...
...promptly rejected by District Judge Alexander Holtzoff. He was not sure whether or not his court could issue an injunction against the President of the U.S. A glum collection of steelmen stalked into Secretary Sawyer's office. Cracked U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless, with a sour grin: "Hello Boss...
...principles of education and academic freedom by hiring controversial people and by answering all attacks without sacrificing his beliefs. Surprisingly, many of his worst critics are Sarah Lawrence students, who feel that once Taylor's boyishness ceases to impress the hardened sophomore, she sees her president as "a big grin with nothing behind it." Others say that Taylor "is too informal." They would like to see him act the traditional role of a college president. These critics, however, constitute a small minority of the Sarah Lawrence population...
Senator Estes Kefauver is doubtless a worthy man. But when, on your cover of March 24, I saw that grin, under those horn rimmed specs, under that coonskin cap, with the coon's little tail adangling, I thought: heaven help us, is that a potential President of these United States? . . . Look at pictures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Jackson, Webster-any really great American. You don't see those men grinning as if life were a big haha...
Grandfather Said, "Grin." The adventures of the unnamed hero (he is called Boy, or Brother) take on the near-heroic quality of a modern tragic Odyssey. Simple and idealistic, he hopes to become an educator, to help advance his people. He loves his college, has unquestioning respect for its famed Negro president and its millionaire Northern benefactors. He is sure that his slave grandfather must have been wrong when he laid down his deathbed formula for dealing with the whites: "Live with your head in the lion's mouth . . . Overcome 'em with yesses, undermine 'em with grins...