Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadest Grin. On May 7, 1945, Jodl and his colleagues arrived at Supreme Headquarters to surrender. As Kay recalls the scene: "I felt a shiver of excitement. I shoved Telek [the General's Scotty] under the desk, commanding him not to bark. [The Nazis] marched straight by without as much as a glance . . . sour-faced, glum, erect and despicable. They came to a parade-ground halt, clicked their heels and saluted . . . General Eisenhower stood stock-still, more military than I had ever seen him. His voice was brittle." When it was over, and "the Germans half-bowed, saluted...
Parker, the model of tennis concentration, tried to shut out the partisan crowd from his consciousness. ("It was like a bullfight. I was the bull") But Parker couldn't handle Pancho's powerful but erratic serve or his incessant volleying attack. With a happy grin on his handsome scarface, the big (6 ft. 2 in.) Gonzales offered his victim to the crowd...
Dropping into the White House for a visit, New York Star Publisher Bartley Crum asked: "By the way, Mr. President, what exactly made you decide to run?" Glancing around the room, Harry Truman replied with a grin: "Where would I ever find another house like this?" This tidbit was reported by a gossip columnist last week. But by last week it was apparent that it would take more than wisecracks to keep Candidate Truman from househunting next winter...
...said Fitzgerald with a grin. He added: "I don't know the first thing about Communism, I don't care what Stalin or Lenin said. I know nothing of the policies of the Soviet Union . . . I'm just a poor guy in the United States...
...their best. If they take sleeping pills, they should avoid the late-acting kind that take effect when they have become sleepy anyway. Otherwise, since it is impossible to send the morning head back to bed while the body goes to work, the only thing to do is grin & bear...