Word: grins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came out against the APCO project during the fall campaign. After the serious business is disposed of, Roby Taylor, a wizened man in blue coveralls, begins showing around color pictures of his twelve-foot tomato vine. "I reckon you never seen anything like it," he says with a great grin...
...television cameras recorded the astonishing scene, Jimmy Carter's face alternately froze and flexed involuntarily into a taut grin. Mexico's President José LÓpez Portillo, a sharp-tongued former law professor, was turning a luncheon toast into an emotional lecture on what he saw as the U.S. practice of viewing its neighbor with a "mixture of interest, disdain and fear." Referring to the highhanded way in which U.S. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger had broken off negotiations to purchase more of Mexico's newly enlarged natural gas supply, LÓpez Portillo waxed rhetorical: "Among...
...Kennedy met his witness in his private office, escorted her personally to the hearing table and adroitly placed himself in a situation where the wife of the President joined him in proclaiming the need for increased spending for social services. Budget-minded Jimmy Carter could only grin and bear it. But Rosalynn got in a political punch of her own. Alluding to the battle between Kennedy and her husband over national health, she said: "While I'm not here today to discuss the pros and cons of various national health insurance proposals-although I understand such a discussion...
...York, devouring whatever ethnic food was thrust into his hand, greeting everybody with a hearty "Hi ya, fella," he wowed downstate Democrats and upstate Republicans alike. Why are you doing this? he was invariably asked. "I sure don't need the money," he would reply with an infectious grin. Harriman never knew what hit him as Rockefeller won by 573,000 votes...
...Just having Julian around is going to make a big difference on this team's attitude," head coach Joe Bernal noted, barely able to subdue the grin breaking out across his face. "His positive attitude is contagious, and I don't need to tell you what he can do for us in the pool...