Word: grins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whenever Deedee Corradini, the brisk, hard-working mayor of Salt Lake City, goes to a national mayors' conference, as she did in New York City in June and in San Francisco in July, hers is the rare grin among very long faces. That is because, as she says, "we are the envy of the others. We have our problems and challenges, but nothing like the rest of the cities. Look at some of the others. Look at L.A. Or San Francisco. I don't know how you can begin to solve those problems, whereas we can solve ours. Our problems...
...expresses worlds of ambiguities: anextraterrestrial's frustration at Earth mores, a doting parent's concern for his ripening daughter, a gentleman's willingness to be the sweet butt of jokes (and, in a funny shower scene, the butt of butt jokes). His mottos might be, Live and let live; Grin and bare...
...forget the memorable goal-line stands that spurred the football team to a 14-0 win in The Game at The Stadium. Nor will anyone soon forget the image of Ted Drury skating around the Boston Garden, holding the Beanpot, with that wide-eyed-seven-year-old-Christmas-Day grin melting the Garden...
When the piano falters, Rinaldo, a stocky round-faced Italian, looks back at me with a grin. "She messed up," he tells...
...provides a great deal of power to the expert. I'm writing this editorial using Word Perfect and Windows, so when I encounter a bug I have no choice but to grin and bear it. It would be impossible for me to rewrite both programs from scratch, so I have little recourse but to call the company, whine, and pray that it will be fixed in the next release...