Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above his dark blue summer suit and white shirt his face was grey. A grim, tight-set jaw had replaced the Truman grin. Once again, he excoriated the "obstinate arrogance" of "these two men." Once again, he named them. Once again, he avowed his friendship for labor. He did not want permanent, restrictive anti-labor legislation. But he asked for the power and means to stop any strike against the nation. The Congress, its blood pressure up too, cheered, and cheered again. (But not all joined in; among the silent: Democrats Pepper, Kilgore and J. Murray; House Minority Leader Joseph...
...editors chuckled at this smooth doubletalk. Cracked Chairman Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Newspapermen the world over are very much alike." Ehrenburg shot him a grateful grin, while the interpreter hastened to finish translating Ehrenburg's previous remarks: "We know that when the Germans were on the outskirts of the city, Stalin stayed in Moscow. Stalin is dear to our hearts. . . ." Suggested Canham: would the visitors like to ask a few questions for a change? Gracefully, Ilya Ehrenburg declined...
While Fred Learned restrained a Yankee grin and 1,000 guests hunched forward expectantly, Dr. Evans "vacuumed" him with a Geiger counter similar to the ones which will be used at the Bikini atom bomb test. When placed near his throat, the sensitive device set up a clatter which, amplified for the audience, was clearly audible in the banquet hall...
...front doors of the White House. Two Secret Service men fell in-one at the President's left, the other a few paces behind. Harry Truman stepped out bouncily. At the west gate on Pennsylvania Avenue he found an early-bird TIME reporter. The President flashed him a grin, asked him what he was doing up at that hour, cheerily invited him to come along for a walk...
...prominent leaders, Rindskopf and Kalbskopf (Oxhead and Calfshead). The general confusion was epitomized by a Munich professor who was called before a huge audience to give the real lowdown on the problems of German reconstruction. Owing to a nervous tic, this professor always broke into a broad grin whenever he had something serious to say. So infectious was his ailment that his audience, after listening to his grim dissertation on Germany's total collapse, walked out convinced that the apparent tragedy was just a huge joke...