Word: grins
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Yankees cap when she had been a well-known Chicago Cubs fan. It remained such a toxic moment that she couldn't risk taking the D train to the Subway Series to join in the purest of Big Apple moments. Rather than the usual grip and grin, she embarked on a listening tour, looking at times like Margaret Mead visiting the Samoans. A Big Apple neophyte, she bungled interest-group politics with a notorious flip-flop on clemency for unrepentant Puerto Rican terrorists...
...hell is going on in this country? Election night gave us the most famous double-bungle in recent reporting history. As poor Dan Rather was forced to tell the world that Florida was miss-called in what head statisticians called a "beaut of a mistake," Rather could only grin sheepishly and attempt to shore up the remainder of the journalistic integrity and credibility left in his haggard body. As the hours wore him down, he eventually experienced what could only be described as a full-blown psychotic episode. Mounting pressure forced Dan into cryptic quasi-stream-of-consciousness spewings like...
With a wry grin, Rich said that it was "great to be back" at her alma mater, speaking in the hall where she attended her first-year Radcliffe Convocation...
...Being someone who put himself through school, a lot of them have a silver spoon in their mouths," Bellach says with a mischievous grin. "A lot are from poor backgrounds and work their butts off, and others are just daddy's little boys. They have the same thing at BU, but here they have more Gucci bags...
...plucked out banjo parts on three or four songs, though we kept only one sample. The beloved glockenspiel was a spur of the moment decision, which proved difficult, as the studio's version of the instrument was a few blocks short of a glock (the thing looked like the grin of an unlucky hockey player). This improvising was exciting and nerve-wracking. It was creative energy in demand. There wasn't much time to "think of something else...