Word: grinned
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Senate, is the fact that when the roll call came, 19 Senators who voted against Proxmire last year voted for him this time. Before the vote, Senator Edmund Muskie, long an environmental expert, spoke against the added funds and got Proxmire's thanks. Muskie responded with a grin and a clenched-fist gesture that seemed...
...collective grandparents of the theaters of cruelty and the absurd. As Jarry lay dying at 34-of an acute brain inflammation caused by tuberculosis and aggravated by drink-he was obsessed by that image of death's anarchic joke, a skull and crossbones with its toothy eternal grin. To his last words he was defiantly absurdist: he asked for a toothpick...
...NEWSPAPER contains an editorial cartoon that shows him evolving into Abraham Lincoln. It is rather heady stuff. Over a cup of coffee, Ed Muskie laughs. The comparison is familiar now. and, as Muskie knows, mildly ridiculous. With a shy grin, he comments: "You know, after my election-eve speech, someone told me that what I had said was a combination of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill." Again the hearty but not totally self-deprecating laugh. "After all," he says, "it was a partisan political speech. How could it be considered a great state paper...
...Mason and have been a Boy Scout. I do not wander aimlessly about slack-jawed with a vapid grin on my face. I, and I am convinced many Americans, happen to believe that man, in common with other members of the animal kingdom, is faced with a continual struggle to stay alive...
Whatever the success of Beaucoups of Blues, Ringo stands little chance of losing the affection of the millions of Beatles fans for whom he has always been something of a sentimental favorite. Who could forget the A-frame eyes, the cockney nose, the corkscrew grin or the way he had-in a moment of percussive rapture-of smiling sideways like Lauren Bacall? There was also something about him of the sad clown who knew he was only a party to greatness, not its originator. "I do sometimes feel out of it," he once said, "sitting there on the drums, only...