Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corner," an austere office in the sprawling Navy building, officers and their civilian helpers could afford to grin. The returns were all in. Their charges, the skittering, mighty midgets that the Navy calls motor torpedo boats, had well and truly proved their worth. In the Philippines they had shown themselves first-class weapons in a last-ditch fight. In the Solomons they had proved more: that they were indispensable in the defense of any beachhead...
Here, in John Bull's tight little isle, where every available hand and bit of soil is producing food, U.S. and British troops are planting a cabbage patch. U.S. soldiers not yet abroad need not grin - they may soon be doing the same. Last week President Roosevelt said he did not see why troops in this country could not be furloughed to help out on labor-stripped farms...
With a sly grin, Wendell Willkie used the quotation to make a telling point: the Republican Party need not accept the stencil that it is the party of high tariffs and protectionism; it should take the lead today in bringing about renewal of reciprocal trade treaties and Lend-Lease extension...
...head, like the leaf of an artichoke; there a charred head, hairless but still equipped with blackened eyeballs; pink, blue, yellow entrails drooping; a man with a red bullet hole through his eye; a dead Jap private, wearing dark, tortoise-shell glasses, his buck teeth bared in a humorless grin, lying on his back with his chest a mess of ground meat. There is no horror to these things. The first one you see is the only shock. The rest are simple repetition...
...tasks thrust on the 77th Congress; in no other country were the overwhelming chores of global war thrown on such a heterogeneous group of men & women. Some future Reveille in Washington will record the solemn manner in which Franklin Roosevelt asked for a declaration of war, the triumphant grin on Poll-Taxer Theodore Bilbo's face, the specter of Prohibition unearthed by Josh Lee, the invective poured out by Montana's Burton Wheeler, the ringing periods of Visitor Winston Churchill's oration in the House Chamber, the turbulent, sweaty, exhausting, endless...