Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aluminum ramp up to the plane while the rest of the Pentagon's top brass gathered round. A smartly uniformed honor guard snapped to salute, four 105-mm. guns boomed a 17-gun salute. General Lucius D. Clay hopped out and looked about him with the fixed smile and nervous glance of a man who was surprised by all the fuss. After four controversial years in Germany-two of them as U.S. Military Governor-Lucius Clay had come home to a hero's welcome...
...world had seen Russians smile before. Was there greater cause for hope this time? It was certainly wrong to assume, as some observers in the West did, that talking to the Russians was useless. It was also wrong to think that, by talking to the Russians, a permanent settlement between the democracies and communism could be achieved. But between these two extremes there was plenty of room for a settlement of specific issues. For this the world could, and did, have hopes...
...Russians meanwhile were giving an increasingly clear indication of what their own strategy would be. All over Europe last week, they trumpeted two slogans. The first was "peace." Andrei Gromyko, who makes news whenever he cracks a smile, left Lake Success for Moscow and remarked: "We have to work for peace, both the Americans and the Russians. They can work together if they want to." Said Moscow's New Times: "The Council of Foreign Ministers could actually become a turning point in the course of postwar settlement...
...only good things Gerasimov found during his visit to the U.S. were "the clever, honest and educated Americans we met at the conference." But these, alas, doubtless victimized by the lure of lingerie, were "all characterized by one trait: a bitter, ironical smile...
...story of Matisse's own career clearly made him an example of the first kind of painter. Could he think of an opposite example? "Charity commands me," said Matisse with a smile, "not to name any artists who do paintings of the second sort...