Word: grins
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...they pushed their luggage carts full of noodles past the airport crowds, no one came up for an autograph or asked them to pose for a picture. Dashiell, though, seemed to remember the man who retrieved his duckie. As we left the terminal, he gave a one-toothed grin to Pongsak Maneethong, 14th in the world in the 56-kg weight class at last year's world championships. Pongsak grinned back, the kind of mega-watt smile that might come after an athlete wins a gold...
...dust was so heavy that a spring sandstorm came and left without our noticing. But the occasional grumbles could never sink the enthusiasm of my neighbors. I came home one day to find one perched precariously on his roof, sawing away. "For the Olympics," he said with a grin. At a party in February, I asked several neighbors their hopes for the coming year; the most popular response was for a successful Games. Clearly, fixing up our courtyard was key to that. "The work here isn't just good for us," says my neighbor Feng Huiming, who works...
...justices during oral arguments back in March. His was the third decision read. As Justice Scalia handed down the court’s opinion—striking down the ban and affirming a strict individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment—Heller broke out into a wide grin. During Justice Stevens’ vigorous dissent, he chuckled audibly. As we left, I had him sign my copy of the opinion, and then we parted ways...
Leaving Sadr City that afternoon, Mohanid gets a call on his mobile phone. "The American base is on fire!" he exclaims with a grin. True enough, it is. On the southeast edge of Sadr City, residents watch as flames sputter from the broken windows of a multistory building on a joint American-Iraqi base. A helicopter hovers through the thick black smoke above, airlifting Iraqi police who have been trapped on the roof, as powerful hoses blast the flames with water from below. But this was no product of the Mahdi Army, which has kept to its official "resting" stance...
...shock I felt when I moved from California to Boston. I had been to Europe before, but never for very long and always on vacation. Coming home would let me process what I had seen, situating my experiences comfortably among the memories of my past travels. With a deepening grin, I would tell my friends and relatives that Barcelona, where I once spent four days in high school, was my favorite city. For years, I have resisted returning to Barcelona because part of me wants to preserve that idyllic image. But I have few memories of the week I spent...