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Word: smirked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to find out whether you are telling the truth, and you grin and smirk and laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Responsible Witness | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

Cohn's snarl and Schine's lurking smirk qualify them for Madame Tussaud's . . . Sad, sad days are these, when Ike, Dulles, Wilson et al. hide while two juvenile delinquents such as these ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...opinions . . . Private Schine was, at the time of his induction, just within the 26-year-old limit, and the kind of controversial public figure the Army does not like to han dle. Did his draft number just pop up, accidental-like? Or, as his friends accuse and enemies smirk, as everyone believes, was it drawn? Why wasn't he given a special com mission and/or a special job? Photographers, pharmacists, private detectives et al. get special jobs, and a lot of other people too, like Elliott Roosevelt (who worked his way up to the rank of brigadier general) .... Anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...tactics that McCarthy might use on Stevens in an open hearing. Fighting Bob barked back: "I'm not going to have my officers browbeaten." McCarthy snapped back with another attack on Zwicker: "I'm not going to sit there and see a supercilious bastard sit there and smirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Oak & the Ivy | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Russell does a frenetic, blond-wigged imitation of Marilyn and, surrounded by a beefcake chorus of athletes, sings Anyone Here for Love? in fine deadpan style. Sample dialogue: First Athlete: "If the ship hits an iceberg and sinks, which girl would you save from drowning?" Second Athlete with a smirk: "Those girls couldn't drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

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