Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father feels when he says good-by to a soldier son. Before the year was out, millions of Americans felt that they knew slim, tall (5 ft., 11 in.) Donel O'Brien, 20, a fresh, handsome kid with wavy blond hair and a quick, Irish grin. For twelve years, Howard Vincent O'Brien had been offering Daily News readers a pleasant column of unspectacular introspection called All Things Considered. The morning he said good-by to Donel, Columnist O'Brien caught the public where its heart is. His "So Long, Son" column stuck. Readers' Digest reprinted...
First Victory. Voronov worked around the clock. Dark circles ringed his eyes. He lost his quick grin. Time was an enemy too; the army's defects had to be whipped before it was too late...
Dale Maple is a tall, quick-witted young man with a ruddy face and ready grin. Covered with scholastic honors from San Diego High at 16, he later went to Harvard. There he was bounced out of a German club for singing Nazi hymns, out of the R.O.T.C. for Nazi sympathies. The FBI looked him over, turned a fishy eye on him, but all was forgiven when Harvard-man Maple enlisted in the Army...
While many a student-soldier could close his books with a grin at the prospect of active service, the colleges were grey with gloom. Those without Navy contracts or women students were hardest hit: the Army planned to reimburse colleges for the balance of its go-day terms, but faculties had been organized and paid for the academic year...
...with them. For myself, after four sleepless nights on a furlough ticket, mid bawling offspring, and with special attention to one dear three-year-old, name of Ralphy, who rode backwards in the seat ahead, chin hung over the back, drippin' orange juice, and with the most unexplainable silly grin on his face for a solid 600 miles, I will be content to go on running my chances at the Touraine with the multitude...