Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems, "Mine Own Executioner" bonsts a murder, a suicide on a tenth-floor ledge, a hair-raising ladder climb, a schizophrenic, a plane going down in flames, a sinister Luger, Japanese torturers, truth serums, a to-the-rescue courtroom exoneration, and a little boy whose gap-toothed, trusting grin sets everything right in a fogless London...
...bond to permit him entry into the U.S. as a nonquota student, and fixed up a room for him in the Shippee home. Last week, Little Joe, with $32 in his pocket, arrived in Providence. For his old friends in the 43rd, he had brought along a big grin, and 7 Ibs. of bucayo, wrapped in banana leaves...
Angles & Stuff. If few Washington correspondents cared much for Arthur Henning's copy, most of them were fond of him personally. A gentle, friendly little man with iron-grey hair and a big, upturned grin, he is, in the words of a veteran colleague, "the nicest, mildest-mannered guy you'd ever want to meet. Then you read that stuff he writes and it's startling...
...doll which she swung gaily by its feet as we talked. She told me she was from Lehnin and her father & mother were waiting in the dark hall outside. Herr Arnold finally appeared-a hunchback under five feet tall. His brown, leathery face pursed up with a wry grin as he explained his prosaic cause for flight. He had idly signed a petition for the re-election of the local mayor. After a new mayor was elected, Arnold had been evicted by the police, on various grounds, from seven apartments in the last few months. Finally he decided they...
...from La Guardia Field this week for Rhodes, they were ready for the best and the worst. The Jews and the Egyptians, Bunche declared, would "have a hell of a time getting off the island" without reaching an agreement. "We have our fingers crossed," he added with a grin, "and we'd have our toes crossed too, if we could...