Word: grins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bourbon-on-the-rocks from a silver tray and swung the glass to his lips. It was the same involuntary motion (though quite a different gesture) as the bullet-swatting in my dream. He was very gay. His wife looked beautiful. When the party was over, he flashed a grin, waved to a score of blown kisses, and shot off towards the big house. At ten the next morning, Hodding Carter III, crusading journalist, started...
...papers said he was "born in Denison by accident"? The school board backed off, sheepishly offered to name, well, the school auditorium after him. But would Ike still attend? He'd be delighted. And so were the townspeople when the general arrived, flashing the famous grin and sternly telling young people to respect law and order. "The nicest part," said a woman who has lived there 76 years, "is he never said anything about the squabble...
...involved the price of the pound itself, which remained steady for the second straight week without support from the Bank of England, thanks chiefly to the encouraging fact that Britain's trade gap for July fell to a trivial $2,800,000. There was some economic news to grin about too, including efforts by a big oil company to grab more of the country's gasoline market by hiring bikini-clad station attendants to give away one gallon free...
...newspaper."-"In our stratum of society," proclaimed one shaggy-haired youth with a sly grin, "we don't aspire to haircuts." On a ferryboat outing to Victoria, B.C., a Negro student watched a number of black-backed gulls mingling overhead with grey and white herring gulls and chuckled: "We're being intellectually stimulated watching the integrated seagulls." Another boy, appalled by a teacher's professed ignorance about "pot" (marijuana), observed: "You'd sure be disadvantaged in my neighborhood." Trying to "Rate." Many teachers find that kind of saucy intelligence more promising than the studied sophistication they...
HALF A SIXPENCE, a musical minted from H. G. Wells's Kipps, gets its glitter from Tommy Steele, a toothy grin that sings and dances with the infectious exuberance of a young cockney Chevalier...