Kansas State had two-tone purple uniforms that looked like Barney sharing a bunk-bed with Grimace.

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Sometimes -- often -- I grimace and panic, look wildly about as I totter and flail.

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Garfield noticed that when team members lifted to exhaustion, they would invariably grimace at the painful effort.

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But when Mr Cameron met Vladimir Putin, it was more grimace than grin.

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As a former oped section editor, I grimace at the omissions and fronts that mask so many self-interested expressions.

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"If something had gone wrong, it would all have been over, " Julio Luaces, now 76, remembers with a grimace.

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The whole fried fish arrives at your table in a pot of seasoned broth, its body curled into a dramatic C-shape, its face clenched in a grimace.

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"And like most sufferers of joke-itis, he had long since given up any trace of being funny, and instead deployed an endless barrage of grimace-inducing puns and lame insults".

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In his black leather jacket, Duris is an anxious little hot shot with a twitchy, feral snarl that comes close to the reflexive grimace of the dangerous young Jean-Louis Trintignant.

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And then he dipped a horsehair toothbrush in a yellow box of bicarbonate of soda and assaulted his grimace in the spotted mirror hanging over the washstand, amusing himself by rhyming: Gerardus M.

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