Word: grins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better than a poke in the eye with a stick," Pickens is every inch the businessman. In place of the pointed boots and Stetson hats that many independent oilmen wear, he favors sober gray suits, button-down shirts and striped ties. He rarely smiles, but when he does, the grin spreads slowly, almost reluctantly, across his face. Says a friend: "He deals with everyone, from Senators to bank presidents, as if he's telling them fishing stories." Yet he can be flint hard. Told of a worker who had been laid off after having given 30 years to his company...
...Tommy's unwritten code. Says Jeffrey A. Edelstein '84-5, "One of the things that makes Tommy's so special is that a longtime patron such as myself can be so rudely treated." John, one of the countermen, flexes his heavily tattoed forearms and says with an ironic grin. "Where else can you go in Harvard Square to spend good money to get insulted...
Admitting with a grin that he expected neither the West nor the Soviet Union to disarm completely, he added, "A seductive slogan is the most powerful political instrument. The Americans don't understand that. They only hurt themselves in struggling against the idea of general and complete disarmament. What they are doing is as futile as Don Quixote's fighting the windmills." Propaganda and true negotiations, he said, should be not contradictory but complementary...
...move of the chess match. Though a botched kickoff return started San Francisco off on its own 6-yd. line, Walsh declined to deviate from his script of plays. When Freddie Solomon dropped pass No. 1 in the dangerous flat, Montana accepted him back in the huddle with a grin. Throwing for 331 yds. and three touchdowns, running for 59 yds. and a 6-yd. score, Montana experienced "the kind of day that quarterbacks dream about," as Shula put it. "He got outside our rush and made everything happen. We didn't have the speed to control...
...Regan was in good humor last Friday morning when he discussed his new job with TIME White House Correspondents Laurence I. Barrett and Barrett Seaman. With a big grin, he displayed a baseball bat aides had given him as a weapon in his new post. But he was also serious in describing his fighting trim. "At age 25," he said of his World War II service in the Marines, "I had 900 men under me in battle. If you don't think that seasons you for combat in Washington later in your life, you're crazy." Other highlights...