Word: grins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like all South Africa's black citizens, for the first time in his life. He shook off offers of help, walking unsteadily but unaided into the polling station in Guguletu, one of the toughest and grimiest of the black townships around Cape Town. Minutes later he emerged, a broad grin lighting his face. "I never thought I would see this day," he said...
...guilt by association, I guess," Porter says with a grin...
...broad, beaming grin is one of his trademarks, but Nelson Mandela thinks it makes him look silly. At 75 and soon to achieve his lifelong dream, he feels he must project a more dignified image. But his struggle to restrain the smiles failed last week as Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi finally agreed to end his Inkatha Freedom Party's boycott of the country's first all-race parliamentary elections. The agreement, said a jubilant Mandela, "is a leap forward for peace...
...addition, the card keys have spiced up the otherwise humdrum Quincy atmosphere. Now, students grin and giggle upon seeing the blinking green light that denotes an unlocked door (often after shrugging in exasperation when the first attempted swipe results in a sinister red signal...
...like most students with bad teachingfellows, can only grin and bear it or transferout...