Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the neighbors, who did not share Mrs. Heiberg's sense of personal involvement, were inclined to grin, but not the Federal Civil Defense Administration, which also had bomb shelters on its mind. The FCDA, not yet as sure of its plans as Mrs. Heiberg, announced last week that it planned to provide bomb shelters for 50 million people in critical target areas. For that purpose alone, it proposed to spend $2 billion of the $3.1 billion it had requested from Congress. The FCDA said it would foot 54% of the bill for the shelters, hoped the balance...
...results were satisfactory; a beatifie grin spread across his face. A shock of iron-gray hair dropped lower and lower over his forehead, and then the grin faded...
...says he notices particularly pictures in the papers of "boys from the North who grin when they are captured and news reports that Koreans north of the 38th parallel are rejoicing at the arrival of the South Korean army." He explains that the vanguard of the South Korean invading army is composed of exited boys from the North who are now going home...
...only about 50 a month, barely enough to keep him and his dog shabbily independent. His benign (and shrewd) policy: no more than one to a customer. When the agents finally nab him, they are wholly disarmed-and frustrated all over again-by his gentle air and toothless, guiltless grin...
...workman repairing the circulation dock told the incarcerates that the man with the keys had "gone away." He added, with a grin, that he wouldn't be back for "an hour and a half...