Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inferno. We went into one barracks after another. So many men were sick and possibly dying of starvation and beatings that they merely lay or leaned or sat shoulder to shoulder, too weak to do more than grin glassily. It was here that we even found some Hindus...
...harder than ever for this skinny (no pound) little man, with grey-fringed balding head and offside grin, to be his simple self. Generals and admirals hogged him. His talent as a G.I. Boswell was to catch fighting men in their unselfconscious moods, and to report what he saw and heard in prose as homely (and sometimes as unselfconsciously eloquent) as their ways; but now he was a celebrity, sought after for autographs...
...Tory defeat, strangely enough, was annoying instead of pleasing to Ted Jolliffe. His party had just been shellacked in the February by-election in Grey North (TIME, Feb. 12); the CCF wanted no election now. Mitch Hepburn, who engineered the business, could grin at the defeat of one rival and the discomfiture of another, but there was little chance of the Liberals picking up many new seats. The man who beamed was George Drew. Now he could go to the people, contend that his opponents had sabotaged him, ask for a clear majority...
WINDS, BLOW GENTLY - Ronald Kirkbridge- Fell ($2.50). A family of Pennsylvania Quakers move to South Carolina, where Father Jordan's neighbors grin at his "book farming," scowl at the high wages he pays his Negroes. Gay, charming, occasionally sexy tale of farm life with social overtones...
Scowling and uncomfortable - as he has had reason to be since he gave the Brazilian press its freedom last fortnight-the longtime (4-year) dictator entered the room. As flashbulbs popped and movie cameras whirred, the well-publicized Vargas grin erased the scowl. Vargas, in answer to persistent queries, 1) said elections would be held "soon", 2) evaded saying whether he would be a candidate by hinting at the possibility of a "serene and tranquil" third name acceptable to all, 3) guaranteed that "freedom of the press [but not necessarily of radio] will be wholly maintained," 4) asserted that Soviet...