Word: grins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned toward me when I came in and moved wide as his smile toward me and sent my teeth spinning through lamplight. It seemed an obvious extension of my beef with Peavey. But I asked him why he had hit the dog. This only reminded him and the grin became one of discovery. He headed for the dog and I headed for the tipped-over lamp. I picked up a piece of milk glass about the time he got to the dog and hit him in the side of the face with...
That flicker of a grin, so often at odds with the import of his words, had disappeared. That Southern lilt, so often muffling the ends of sentences, was almost gone. As President Carter appeared on prime-time television last week to proclaim and explain the long-awaited Stage II of his campaign to slow the inflation that has reached an annual rate of 10%, his manner and delivery befitted the solemnity of his subject. Seated at his Oval Office desk and reading from a prompter, the President vowed to try "to arouse our nation to join me" in the long...
...perky coach with the infectious grin calmly started spinning her magic, working on fundamentals, enticing talented high school players to Cambridge, and changing Radcliffe's Seven Sisters cellar-dwelling image with eternal optimism. Unlike many of those up for re-election next week, Field's record since '75 speaks for itself: 26-7-9 (through last Saturday's landmark victory in Tigertown...
...Yeah, last night was miserable," he says with lifted eyebrows. "I moaned (pause) and groaned (pause) and beseeched God (special emphasis) to deliver me," he continues with a grin...
...paranormal powers among ordinary people is a classic conceit used by many television shows, including Bewitched, My Favorite Martian and I Dream of Jeannie. But Williams' pastiche of mime, light-speed improvisation and complex clowning is giving that one-joke vehicle a new velocity. Delivered with his engagingly boyish grin and calculated inflections, such gibberish as "nano, nano" (meaning hello) and "nimnul" (meaning jerk) can send audiences?and producers?into paroxysms of delight: last week the show shot up to seventh place in the Nielsens. "This guy is going to be a superstar with or without this series," observes Dale...