Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dugan explained, "I've never seen anybody who could surpass this guy." On the third day, Joe whomped homer No. 4 to confound the Red Sox and sweep the series. After the sportwriters ran out of superlatives, all the great DiMaggio could do was grin...
Only William Orville Douglas, the justice with the cowlick and the friendly grin, was absent; he had flown off to the Middle East to climb a mountain and make a speech...
...bucktoothed, husky lad with a wide grin, Brown stood No. 372 in his class, chose civil-engineering duty. This will spare both him and the Navy the potential embarrassments of the close-packed life of seagoing wardrooms. It will also get him a postgraduate engineering course at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before he goes to duty in a Navy shore establishment. He deplored the fuss about him: "I don't think the American public has matured enough to accept a person on the basis of his ability and not regard him as an oddity . . . just because of his color...
...been worked over by three men and stabbed. The three hoodlums had raced out of the building, fought off Milletti and got away. At the hospital, Willie's wife, Beatrice, sat beside him until, around midnight, he was ready for the operating room. Then Willie managed a thin grin and said: "Why don't you put some lipstick on and quit crying? You better go home and take care of your kids." Four hours later he was dead...
When first published, the book was mistaken by some for an ironic smirk at the church. A weary smile, at least, is there; Martin du Gard is, personally, an avowed atheist. But there is also a bored grin at the starry-eyed rationalism and humanism of the pre-carriage Barois. To Author Martin du Gard, there are no sure answers to anything, either in religion or irreligion. But most of the sting is taken out of his irony by the simple compassion for human beings that salves every page in the book...