Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, the writing wars with itself. The reader may wonder whether the author really means what his narrator says. The newspaperman's powerful, simultaneous attraction and revulsion toward sex has left him torn by disillusion. But his humor betrays him; it is sane and healthy. The grin may be twisted, but the mind is not, and it is hard to believe that once the fellow gets his divorce and has a few drinks to steady himself, he will still be able to see the Devil's jigging hoofs instead of the barmaid's dimpled knees...
...Democratic-angled afternoon News, where he sat at the telegraph editor's desk and did little but doodle and smile for a News photographer. Then he adjourned to the Herald's city room. Asked if he would like to edit the paper, Truman backed off with a grin: "That's your job, not mine." He had passed up his big chance, but he advised Knight and all his men: "The more we print about what Republicans are doing the better...
...detour carefully arranged to get Ike out of tense Buenos Aires into a more easily policed area). Along the seven-mile route from the airport into the resort town, nearly a million cheering, suntanned vacationers, many wearing bathing suits, made a happy uproar and brought a mile-wide grin to Ike's face...
Then a mighty roar went up, and there came Tom Mboya on the shoulders of his excited supporters. Around his shoulders was a black skin cape. The sleepy eyes danced with pleasure, and a grin split the gleaming, satin-smooth black face...
Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl. The master of the grisly grin concentrates largely on females in these stories, and the results will make most householders regard their wives, cats and landladies with renewed suspicion...