Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Bill has played it safe & sane since his teens. In those younger days he was a lank kid with a toothy grin, a penchant for flying, no allergy to work. On school vacations he worked as a "fly boy" in the pressroom at his father's New York Mirror. By the time he was 23 he was president of the American, and nobody objected. He earned the fond regard of Manhattan cops and firemen by plugging to get them higher pay. Occasionally he went nightclubbing with Irving Berlin...
Japanese-Americans, citizens of the U.S., brag of going back to the states as soon as transportation is available. When asked why they came back to Japan, they all give that well-known toothy grin and say, "My mother was sick," or "dying," or "dead," "and I had to return to take care of the family...
What information-bases? Sites for launching rocket bombs? Reporters who asked such questions got only a grin and an answering question: "What do you think?" Without once mentioning atoms, a Cabinet Minister somberly said: "We all know that invasion of North America, if and when, will come from the north, not the south. . . . We have to be ready. . . . We have to be able to live, travel and fight in the cold...
...LL.B., Ph.D.) has a theory that in the next hundred years the U.S. will drift toward an Amazonian matriarchy. He invented Wonder Woman to educate his fellow men to their fate. Says he: "Men actually submit to women now, they do it on the sly with a sheepish grin because they're ashamed of being ruled by weaklings. Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to and they'll be proud to become her willing slaves...
Last month in Mexico City, Juan Ne grin and a remnant of the Spanish Cortes met again. Of the 474 deputies elected to the Cortes in Spain's last general elections (1936), 127 have died - mostly by execution. The Mexico City meeting, mustering 94 of the 98 deputies now living in Mexico, named Diego Martinez Barrio Provisional President of the Spanish Republic (TIME...