Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face, in which there was the visible touch of greatness, stepped briskly down the ramp of the plane from China. Three months, almost to the hour, after he had left for Chungking, U.S. Special Envoy George Catlett Marshall was back in Washington. He had time for a broad, boyish grin and two kisses for his waiting wife, quick handshakes for a cluster of welcoming dignitaries. Then he hurried away, in a long black Packard, to report to the White House on the most significant mission undertaken by a U.S. citizen since the end of World...
Senators began to grin. Was he a trustee of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.? "Oh, yes, sir," George drawled, "that's a great company. I get very little from them. I ought to get more. I get $40 when I attend a meeting and yet they have assets of over a billion." How come he was dropped from the General Chemical Co. of New 'York? "Hmm-" George's eyes searched the ceiling, "I wasn't exactly fired. How can I put it nicely? There wasn't any enthusiasm for me to stay...
Among those in the dock was Heinz Hermann Koch, 32, a foolish grin on his heavy, sensual face. Koch had once been a Stuttgart hairdresser. "But I didn't like being a hairdresser," he told the court. "I wanted women, drink, money. So I joined the Gestapo...
Canadians liked his infectious grin, his firm handshake, the way he stopped unexpectedly to chat with a veteran of the Royal Canadian Regiment in his guard of honor. When U.S. Chief of Staff Dwight David Eisenhower strode down the red carpet in the cavernous Union Station at Ottawa last week, he walked right into Canada's heart...
Last week, with a grin, William Primrose pulled the rug out from under these connoisseurs of tone. During most of his concert appearances in the past nine months, his valuable Antonio Amati viola (circa 1630) had stayed in its plush-lined case. The viola his audience heard was American (circa 1945). He had played it for more than 40 concerts to prove a point: "There's more snobbery connected with old instruments than with anything I know...