Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Happy Warrior fought back. He traveled the U.S. in a special train with 40 reporters. He never lost his grin; at press conferences he would order: "Throw in the ball, boys, and I'll kick at it." But the shrewd, hoarse eloquence, the administrative abilities that he had, and the support of all liberals, were not enough -the Great Engineer was elected. But now Smith had the fever. He became convinced that next time he would make it. When his old friend Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1932 nomination by the famed McAdoo-Garner-Hearst deal, Al Smith felt...
Rather than crack the Coalition at mid-invasion (and probably commit party suicide). Greenwood & Co. simply resolved not to vote. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin propelled his big bulk across the House floor, stopped in front of Greenwood Grated Bevin: "So you won't vote, eh?" Greenwood grinned at him, turned with a grin to the nearly 200 Laborites ranged behind him, sat tight. So did they. Once again, they were in revolt against their own leaders in the Government...
...Christmas banquet each year. It seems to come off amicably. Besides running his 1,050-acre plantation like a patriarch, he has dabbled in politics with more expense than success. In 1942, he roamed the state providing lavish free meals and exhibiting his flowing locks and friendly grin to the populace, came within 200 votes of winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator. Since then he has established an anti-New Deal paper called the Jefferson Republican, which he sends monthly at his own expense to a mailing list of thousands...
...Marines of the battle-hardened Amphibious V Corps (Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok) took time out to grin. On a bulletin board was a notice from one of the outfit's censors, addressed to a private.The message...
...went then to my room. On the wall was a picture of a little boy, his toothless grin framed in tawny curls-the same boy who had just taken my hand and said: 'Well, so long...