Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grin & Bare It. In Dudley, England, the Rev. E.A.D. Naylor announced in his parish magazine that his own method of cheering up was to stand naked in front of a mirror, recommended it to others: "The sight of yourself in your birthday suit will soon make you see the funny side of life...
...Bill Ruete steered him, Charlie Wilson proceeded under his own steam. He was not only ambitious and bursting with vitality, but a natural leader who could never bear to take second place. Recalled one of his associates with a wry grin last week: "He's a great team man-so long as he can be captain...
General Dwight Eisenhower stepped down on West Point's Stewart Field last week with a wave of his hat and a happy, tired grin. He had reason to smile. His 21-day tour of the NATO countries had been one of the great diplomatic triumphs of the free nations...
Harry Truman's hair had turned almost white in the past year, and the lines in his face had deepened. His wrinkle-cheeked grin was still to be seen, but at times it seemed forced and perfunctory. During the past month the President's physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, began watching him a little anxiously-the Korean crisis and the death of the President's old friend and press secretary, Charlie Ross, had hit Harry Truman hard, and he showed it. Last week Graham put his patient through a complete and detailed physical checkup...
...hours after the takeoff, Commander Sproul stood in the evacuation hospital at Hamhung watching a pint of the precious fluid flow into the veins of a wounded G.I. from Wisconsin. Each pint of Red Cross blood is marked with the city of its origin. Commander Sproul saw the boy grin when he noticed that his pint was marked "Madison...