Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cobbler Harry Jake DeVoogd, 26, of Boone, Iowa is an earnest young man with a broad grin and a deformed foot. His draft classification was 4-F and the Army refused him when he volunteered...
...home field and Tex swept in with his fighters. He walked toward us, his long wiry body moving with a roll that held a kind of threat in it. He looked like nothing so much as a steely-eyed Texas cowboy killer. On his face was a broad grin and in his blue eyes was a hard, bright, but delighted, look...
...best they could do was a 100-ft. miss on one of the destroyers with a 1,000-lb. bomb that could have broken its back. "Maybe we knocked some paint off him," reported the bomber's pilot with a sickly grin...
...plot is strictly for pancakes: American boy in Yankee Division learns that British aren't really cold and unemotional when they grin and bear it; war plus Diana Barrymore teach Robert Stack that there is something bigger than individual emotionalism. Yes, the plot is corn syrup, but it doesn't matter at all. It doesn't matter because, for the first time, we see fleets of Spitfires fighting German Messerschmidts; we see two thousand horse power bombers with three ton bombs tucked away in their bellies; we see a frightening, new version of "Hell's Angels." All this runs throughout...
...learned the ropes. Even the Dean's Office held no terrors for him, and the grin which he reserved for baby deans, before whom he once had quailed visibly, was only matched by the wink to the secretary as he strolled through the double doors of University 4. Yes, he was set now. Contracts signed, room fixed, and a little black book of telephone numbers to forestall those lonely walks toward the Radcliffe quad. A pounding of footsteps interrupted his thoughts, and he stepped aside just in time to avoid the oncoming rush of Yardlings trying to beat...