Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were elected delegates. The Democratic high command tried to be nonchalant about it all. A fine, healthy thing that so many Democrats voted, said the unblushing McKinney. At Key West Harry Truman acted uninterested when reporters tagged him on his morning walk the morning after. He managed a weak grin and said nothing...
...Cuban democracy." Agramonte, freed after a few hours in jail, pointed out bitterly that some straw votes had shown him winning. "Batista not only took the government away from Prío," he cried, "but he took it away from me-a double usurpation!" Unmoved, the Strong Man grinned his victory grin, talked vaguely of elections "as soon as possible," and waited for the U.S. to recognize...
...Petey has stayed, and his parents visit him three or four times a year. Now five, he weighs a little over 30 pounds and has the mental powers of a one-year-old. He has learned to walk-"ungracefully and unsteadily," says his mother, "but with an unmistakably proud grin on his face"-and he can say a few simple words...
...late great Stanislavsky, who taught his pupils to "react" as everything from mad monks to coffee percolators, might have shuddered at such a theory of acting, but for Wayne, it works. "Sometimes they call it corn," he admits with a grin, "but I've always felt that if a scene is handled with simplicity-and I don't mean simple -it'll be good...
...mass meeting soon afterward, M.P.A. Vice President Hedda Hopper put the record straight. John Wayne to the contrary notwithstanding, she told the meeting and its abashed president, Larry Parks would most certainly not be forgiven. "Well, you certainly gave it to me," Duke told her with a grin. "You certainly deserved it," said Hedda. Later she confided to a friend: "Duke is a little dumb about these things...