Word: grins
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...though, most people in Tehran seemed relieved by Obama's victory, and hope that he will live up to his name, literally, and improve relations. "Soon I'll be visiting you in the U.S.," my grocery storekeeper declared with a huge grin. "As soon as there is an embassy here," he added, "I'll be the first to apply for a visa...
...Claire is always bubbly, happy and well adjusted,” Saretsky wrote. “Each day, she shows up to practice with a big grin from ear to ear and is excited about whatever we have in store that...
...delayed webcam shot. Men and women can communicate with an ease and frankness that Palestinian social mores are less permissive of. In his IM window, the young Palestinian book-ended a flirtatious message to his Gazan girlfriend with a line of heart and angel icons. He flashed a quick grin and hit enter...
...claimed they never paid any attention to polls. "Oh, no, we never look at the polls!" he said aboard the Straight Talk Express in the days before the New Hampshire primary in January. Then he shot a glance over to his chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, and asked with a grin, "Any new polls this morning, Sergeant Schmidt? Any new numbers?" Like most politicians and political professionals, McCain was obsessed with the polls. He knew how to read them. And he knew - whether they bore good news or bad - that they usually told the truth...
...anxious parents of 1940 that "your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." Always be sincere, Harry Truman said, even if you don't mean it. The presidency is less an office than a performance: Who saw the gloom and glower behind Eisenhower's incandescent grin? This is why temperament descends easily into caricature: the feisty Give-'Em-Hell Harry, the cool-as-crystal Kennedy, the Vesuvian Lyndon Johnson. "We've taken temperament and turned it," warns presidential historian Richard Norton Smith of George Mason University, into "vaudeville...