Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Somewhat tense but never impatient, the crowd had waited at the gates since early morning, but it was not until the afternoon shadows had begun to lengthen that the superintendent of Buckingham Palace at last made his appearance. His face wore a broad grin, and his hand bore a simple two-sentence statement handwritten on pale grey stationery and signed by the Queen's four doctors. "Is it a boy?" shouted someone in the crowd as the superintendent hung the gilt-framed announcement upon the railings. "Yes, it is," he shouted back, and the crowd cheered...
...easily have been just one more merely colossal ($4,500,000) monster-movie comes off the reel as a grandly entertaining spoof of the boys' book as it was written before the comic strips took over-the sort of kids' picture that makes children gasp and parents grin...
...guest of honor himself presided over 7,000 of the faithful seated in orderly rows in Los Angeles' Pan-Pacific, watched the cross-country tribute on any one of three enormous TV screens hung from the walls. When he was cued in, he flashed an electioneering grin, said: "It is indeed a proud moment...
...band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again at a United Steelworkers rally in Buffalo one day last week as silver-maned President David McDonald, a grin of victory on his face, slowly made his way toward the speaker's platform along an aisle jammed with jubilant steelworkers. Crowed McDonald from the platform: "Victory is yours...
Kennedy. Wearing a handsome grin and a deep tan (he was just back from a two-week rest in Jamaica), Jack Kennedy packed the stately caucus room of the old Senate Office Building as a front runner should. Millionaire Jack (see box) made no mention of money, called himself a "liberal Democrat," spun out a list of global questions that would require "crucial decisions" in the years ahead (arms race, emergent nations, U.S. science and education, farm policy, moral purpose...