Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans, a bit breathless, felt a good deal like wallflowers. ¶ In California, Jimmy Roosevelt wound up a two-week "dry run" in his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. On street corners in 51 Northern California towns, lanky Jimmy had tilted his head, flashed the family grin, hacked away at the Republicans' Governor Earl Warren. Orated Jimmy: "Thanks to my father and mother, I feel I've had the soundest possible political training...
...South Kensington, for the Conservative candidate Sir Patrick Spens. Churchill spent election night at home, appeared the next day at his own constituency, Woodford, burdened with a gold-headed cane and a somber mood. Mrs. Churchill was cheerful. She introduced the Labor candidate, young Seymour Hills, to Churchill. Hills grinned a buck-toothed grin and flushed. Said Churchill: "So you're the Labor candidate, are you?" and walked away...
...here's that man himself," cried the announcer-"Arthur, the-man-with-the-natural-look, Godfrey !" Wearing his earphones, a swept-up shock of copper hair and a winning, country-boy grin that belied his 46 years, the big-shouldered man at the desk shifted a candy wafer in his mouth and asked plaintively: "Now what am I gonna do with the last half of this Life Saver...
...matches out of 48, Big Jake had been on top, and powerful Pancho Gonzales had been just about as low and grouchy as a man can get. But in California last week Pancho's big grin was flashing again. Since their return from Europe last month, he had beaten Big Jake eight times out of twelve. Twenty-one-year-old Pancho even figured he had a mathematical chance to overtake 28-year-old Jake before the tour ends next October...
...quit school to start cartooning on the Chicago Daily News, later moved to Cleveland and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1941, Herblock drew the cartoon for N.E.A. that won him a Pulitzer: a German soldier searching the sky for a British bomber while Parisians look on and grin...