Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murrow is a dark, lanky man with a luminous grin and a scholar's careful head. Thinking about Europe and thinking on his feet were two specialties with him before he became chief of CBS's news staff abroad in 1937. He had been President of the National Student Federation of America and assistant director of the Institute of International Education (with offices in Europe). A lack of newspaper experience turned out to be the least of his worries. Against stiff NBC competition-for NBC had been in the field for years and many Europeans thought...
Brigadier Wilson saw plenty of dive-bombing from the wrong end. He gave U.S. officers words of cheer about what it is like to be dive-bombed. The effect, he thinks, is 90% psychological. If the morale of the bombed outfit is high-as his was-the men will grin & bear it. But he saw many a French driver jump from his truck and run into the woods when the Stukas came over-leaving a truck to block traffic or crack up on the roadside...
...Buster Ballads (Almanac Singers; two General albums). In the former, the vagrant, gusty Almanackers toss off Blow the Man Down, Blow Ye Winds High-O, etc. The other set is a random survey of such Americana as Ground Hog ("Up comes Sal with a snicker and a grin, Ground Hog grease all over her chin...
...said he was New York City's 99th mayor (correct: 103rd, counting acting mayors). Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from God" he would run for office again. "I've heard nothing from Heaven yet," he added...
Bluster. He won many skirmishes in the Revolution because he had neither fear nor prudence. When he completed a mission he would come with a delighted grin to his commander and say: "Whom do I strike next?" But he had no understanding of anything beyond action. "Comrade," Lenin once asked him, "Suppose you were asked what you were fighting for, what would you say?" Budenny answered: "Comrade, I would say that Lenin knows...