Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal view is that there is no middle course between Crown and republic, between in & out of the Commonwealth ... If in some nebulous and muddled way you can be both in & out of it, the whole concept of Commonwealth goes and what remains is mere name without substance, the grin without the cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
...horse doesn't win this race," said white-haired Clifford Mooers with a grin, "my face will be as long as that post. I'm not a very good loser." Then Cliff Mooers climbed to his box in the stone grandstand at Keeneland track. The odds board showed that his horse, a long-barreled chestnut named Old Rockport, was 4-5 to win the $20,000 Blue Grass Stakes, his last big test race before the Kentucky Derby...
...blanket finish, with little more than a length separating all four: Mrs. Royce G. Martin's Halt, J. A. Kinard Jr.'s Johns Joy, Greentree's Wine List and -fourth-Old Rockport. Hard-Loser Cliff Mooers had a grin on his face. Said he: "We can afford to lose this...
...Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, driving off in a staff car during the Italian campaign, and giving the camera a jolly-good-fellow grin. But at that instant the sun strikes the gold knob of his baton, and flashes across his features a demoniac glitter...
Just Hang On. When Brand began his experiment, he hid the straitjackets to keep other attendants from using them. Now, he says with a grin, he has forgotten where he hid them. There is also less need, he finds, for "chemical restraint" (sedative drugs). When a new patient arrives, often in a straitjacket, Brand has a technique: "I give them a good talking to. 'This is your home,' I tell them. 'It's up to you if you are going to have a new life.' Most of them really understand me. Not one has ever...