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Word: grinningly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slim-hipped, 130-lb. Andy was in high spirits last week as she inspected the special (i.e., shorter) slalom course for her final race. Andy skittered around like a frisky colt as Coach Herb Jocum and Husband Dave Lawrence plotted her descent. "Gee," said Andy with a carefree grin, "this looks like a swell course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Andy Again | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...best American tradition, John Wayne started his trade at the bottom-as a property boy on the old Fox lot on Hollywood's Western Avenue. He was then a lanky young football player at the University of Southern California, equipped with an amiable grin, formless energy, and a vague ambition to become a lawyer. Like all genuine Hollywood actors, he was born (in Winterset, Iowa) with an alias: Marion Mitchell Morrison. When he was five, his parents moved to California and settled in Glendale, where his father ran a drugstore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wages of Virtue | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...team skidded and slithered into a disastrous series of pell-mell spills. Andy, after one half fall and a daredevil jump ending in a ski-tangled pileup, led the U.S. squad but finished a sorry 17th out of 43. Her sense of humor still intact, she said with a grin: "I guess we're the crash and burn team ... I made a great jump-right off the course." This week Andy had only one to go, her favorite : the special slalom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Andy at Oslo | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Mike Di Salle offered Arnall some genial advice on how to "grin & bear" the trials of OPS. Arnall will be facing three trials in short order: 1) the price-wage dispute in the steel industry; 2) the program of partial decontrols, already launched by Di Salle; 3) congressional hearings on the new price and wage stabilization bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: New Boss for OPS | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Churchill's bulldog features broke into a grin. "I hadn't prepared any famous sentence," he replied, "but you may be quite sure that His Majesty's Government will do their duty, irrespective of whether what they do is popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Diplomat | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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