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Word: smiled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never worth a damn again, and I must say it didn't surprise me. Like I said, he spent a lot of time in the bush leagues, and it made him resentful. He was always trying to be one of the guys, but he had this sick smile like a snake in the grass. The guys were willing to give him a break because he was winning ball games for us that year, but he was never a real Yankee...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: The Papal Bull | 5/10/1972 | See Source »

...left him in there, and on the first pitch McCormick hit the longest foul I've ever seen. When it left the park it was still going up, but damn if Smokey doesn't turn to the dugout and flash that snake-in-the-grass smile of his. He was the only one in the whole park who knew what was going to happen next, and I guess he thought that was pretty funny...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: The Papal Bull | 5/10/1972 | See Source »

...place went wild. Smokey started running around with that insane smile, both benches cleared, fans poured out onto the field, and soon everybody was fighting everybody else. Finally they had to call in the cops, and to this day I've never been able to figure out how Milhouse got out of there alive...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: The Papal Bull | 5/10/1972 | See Source »

...Little More." Pritchett can smile at his youthful self. More important he is able to set down the gradual growth of his mind. After the early Paris period when he thought his feet could take him farther than his head, he entered a blurry "transcendental" phase culminating in the Irish sojourn. In that "Victorian lagoon," even the fighting seemed unreal. He arrived at Cork terrified by a hail of machine-gun fire, only to be reassured by the urchin carrying his bag: " Tis only the boys from the hills." In Ireland he met his first true writers-Yeats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Making of a Writer | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...along: there are very few "good" white people and they are not to be found all in one location. Of course, some whites are more outwardly pleasant than others to black people, but I judge a man by his actions, not his appearance. I could care less if his smile is wide or if he's in the habit of regularly saying "hello...

Author: By Sid Williams, | Title: A Few Words Before I Go | 5/2/1972 | See Source »

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