Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked to jot down a few characteristics the term "meatball" brings to mind, some of the Seniors replied: "A red-headed fatso in a green double-breasted suit leading a conga line at Eliot House . . . guy who walks a round Symphony Hall at intermission with a simpish grin . . . the people who made up this questionnaire...
From then on he had plain sailing to the top. General Arnold worked prodigiously at his desk, flew prodigiously, never lost his grin. Articulate, facile with words, he wrote boys' books about a young flying hero; with rugged Major General Ira Eaker as collaborator, he began turning out books about air power. But the lessons of other days had stuck. Arnold and Eaker tore no hair, snatched no lapels from their readers' coats. Their books were sound, but conservative and well hedged. If Billy Mitchell turns out not to be 100% right, neither of them has anything...
Asked to jot down a few characteristics the term "meatball" brings to find, some of the Seniors replied: "A red-headed fatso in a green double-breasted suit leading a couga line at Eliot House...guy who walks around Symphony Hall at intermission with a simpish grin...the people who made up this questionnaire...
Last week Willoughby turned up in San Francisco with a sheepish grin and one bar of gold, which he turned over to authorities, saying, "Here's one I forgot...
...touched before going out after the Jap. They needed luck. The Jap bombed the two makeshift fields endlessly, was always overhead with fighters when they took off because he was close enough to hear their engines warming up. Like his pilots, General George took it all with a tight grin, hoped for better days...