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Word: grins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closer than Queen Victoria's little isle was the Soviet Union which might, like Britain before it, exploit the weakness of a divided India to win hegemony. Already Puran Chandra Jpshi, India's grinning Communist leader,' and other Russian agents had a small (50,000), growing, tightly organized machine within India. If dissension grew in India, Joshi's grin (and Russia's chance) would grow with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: End of Forever | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Franklin Roosevelt called Gruening to the White House, greeted him with a grin, cried (although they had never met) : "Where have you been keeping yourself? I understand you know a lot about Cuba. Tell me what we ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Promised Land | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Almost simultaneously, the labor-bill conferees composed their last differences. Ohio's Bob Taft wore a broad grin. The bill had emerged substantially as it had been fashioned in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Stewart Alexander, 27, strode into Philadelphia's Cedarbrook Country Club locker room wearing an ear-to-ear grin. His score-a five-under-par 66-broke the three-year-old course record in the first round of last week's $15,000 Inquirer Invitation Tourney. Fellow golfers shook his hand and slapped his back. Just when he was beginning to enjoy prosperity, the crash came. Veteran Ben Hogan, finishing three hours later over the damp fairways, entered the locker room triumphantly. He had just scored six under par, shooting six birdies and a big wide hole in Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Short Triumph | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...hard way. First there were the qualifying matches, and he breezed through them; then Pancho liquidated two opponents who had been considered good enough to sidestep qualifying matches. His usual lethargic, mañana attitude was gone, replaced by a calm, white-toothed grin and a cannonball service. In the third round he met and disposed of Herbie Flam, 8-10, 8-6, 6-4. Said Pancho: "I don't think he'll ever beat me again unless he's playing especially good and I'm bad." It was a big victory for Pancho, even though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ma | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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