Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...speaker announced: "The first wave of the attack force is ashore," MacArthur nodded to Doyle. Then the speaker called: "All boats are ashore from the first and second waves. The troops are fanning out rapidly. No casualties so far." MacArthur lowered his head a little, and then a broad grin spread across his face. The night before, he had said we would not take more than 100 casualties on the morning objectives. Now all waves were ashore, with only 15 casualties reported...
...Security Council, lost patience with Russia's Jacob Malik. The Russian representative, snapped Dr. Tsiang one day last week, "spends much of his superabundant energy in trying to prove to us that black is white and that white is black." Malik's retort made spectators grin: Tsiang's reference to black & white was "an insult to 14 million Negroes in the U.S." He added heavily: "White men, too, may have a black conscience and a black soul...
...support of a sizable group of delegates who apparently felt he was the only man with a chance to beat Tom Dewey, but the New York City bosses would have none of him. Junior was finally persuaded that it would be best to quit. With a broad but mechanical grin, ambitious Congressman Roosevelt announced that he was all for good old Walt Lynch, and put away his gubernatorial dream until the 1954 convention...
...always liked to needle someone into asking him what was the biggest disappointment he ever had in his life. Then, with a wide grin, he would reply: "When Hermann Goring committed suicide. He's the one I wanted to hang most...
...already taking his appointed place in the family circle. Nicholas Delano ("Little Bear") Seagraves-his mother, Anna Eleanor Dall Boettiger ("Sistie") Seagraves, is the eldest child of the Roosevelts' eldest child, Anna-hit his first-year mark, obliged the birdie with what might well become another famous grin...