Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belvoir, Infantry Instructor Eisenhower showed an infantryman's skill in fielding grenadelike questions right back at their tossers. Asked slyly if he expected his Fort Belvoir assignment (probable term: three years) to last longer than Ike's stay in the White House, Major John flashed an Ikelike grin, replied: "Dad doesn't talk to me about those things. He prefers to talk to me about golf...
...this end, the Navy has established a squad of civilian psychologists at Camp Elliott, to work with selected inmates to find out what makes the problem sailor or marine break step. Head of the squad is James Douglas Grant, 37, a burly, six-foot Stanford graduate, with an infectious grin and a saddle-tanned bald head, who has three immediate aides but can draw on the help of Camp Elliott's 400-man staff if he needs it. Grant's first problem was to find a yardstick for his research. "A man's intelligence quotient...
Three days before, Jack Fleck barely had the cash to pay his caddy. Suddenly, the golf world was his. Tears filled his eyes as he watched Gentleman Ben Hogan grin for the cameras and fan the red-hot Fleck putter, the Hogan-designed club that had carried him home...
...Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Herr Adenauer . . . to discuss the establishing of diplomatic, trade and cultural relations between the [two countries] and the examination of questions connected with it." Reading the note in his office overlooking the Rhine, the granite face of old Konrad Adenauer split into a grin...
...Newcomer Fess Parker plays the famed frontiersman with just the right blend of John Wayne and Herb Shriner. And Writer Tom Blackburn has invented a Crockett filled with engaging crotchets: when first encountered, Davy is deep in the piney woods taking time off from Indian-fighting to try to "grin" a bear into submission. This budding effort at psychological warfare fails, and Davy needs a knife to subdue the critter. Throughout the picture, the heroic act is never far removed from the owlish legpull: when Crockett comes prancing into Congress garbed in backwoods buckskins, neither he nor anyone else pretends...