Word: charming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bring in the usual items for personal use duty-free. Not to bring: Soviet currency, firearms, pigeons, pornography or propaganda. Tourists are asked to declare any gold they are bringing in and, since customs officials seem obsessed with this, it is not a time to be careless. An overlooked charm bracelet has been known to result in a lengthy inquisition...
...friends, McNaughton was a man of charm and reserve. To his colleagues, he was a hard-driving executive who grasped issues with great clarity. To the nation, he lent his abilities to disarmament and arms control...
Both men showed that thoughtfulness, charm, and humor do not hurt, but enhance, scholarship. Harvard is much richer for their examples...
...inability to document claims of extreme age helps establish a useful outer limit for doctors who deal with the aged-and in no way detracts from the charm of such local characters as Charlie Smith and Sylvester Magee, another former slave from Hattiesburg, Miss., who claimed to be celebrating his 126th birthday last May 29. Magee's eyes are bright and alert, his face marvelously expressive, and until four years ago he was still working in the cotton fields. His recollections of life as a slave and of his later service in the Union Army are remarkably detailed...
...leisurely novel written in 1952 but only recently translated. A year ago, British Director Tony Richardson turned the book into a water logged movie starring Jeanne Moreau at her most brackish (TIME, May 5). That was too bad, and unnecessary, for the book at its best has the sunny charm of one of Renoir's floating picnics...