Word: sheepishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Willoughby turned up in San Francisco with a sheepish grin and one bar of gold, which he turned over to authorities, saying, "Here's one I forgot...
...come back any more, everyone began to enjoy his job. The drivers enjoyed letting their motors run and disregarding traffic lights. The faces of the men with the bandages on their arms lost their strained looks, after they had walked off their Sunday dinners. Nor did they look so sheepish when they had become accustomed to walking up and down in front of their neighbors' houses. And the women liked riding around in station wagons and looking very efficient and wearing slacks. They all looked like they would enjoy coming out to play "incidents" again sometime. Vag thought it would...
Button-eyed, sheepish-smiling Sylvia Foodim, 8, smoothed her dress, perched herself at a big piano, gravely played Beethoven and Schumann, rattled through a Schubert scherzo. She was the youngest. A dozen other dressed-up girls, and one boy, took their turns at the piano. Thus Manhattan's Greenwich House Music School exhibited, in a formal recital, what its piano department is doing for slum children. In the springtime, as their year closes, many of the 50-odd settlement music schools in the U.S. give concerts for friends and potential benefactors...
...players trooped out of their dugouts. Politicians trotted on to the field and shook hands all around. Someone placed a floral horseshoe on home plate. Red-coated brass-bandsmen, tootling gaily, marched off toward the flagpole leading a procession of flag-bearing U.S. Marines, high-hatted bigwigs and sheepish ballplayers, shuffling out of step. The flag was raised, the Star-Spangled Banner reached high F, the mayor threw out the first ball. Thus traditionally the baseball season opened last week. Immediately dopesters' expectations were knocked out of the ball park...
...guess so," came the sheepish answer...