Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls. Green bags turned slowly and stared at him; the gray flannels glared. This time the people turned around and blocked his way; as he crossed the street, all the cars seemed to leap at him. There was some spirit after all. Vag jumped back quickly, but with a smile on his face. Hitching up his tie, he walked confidently back toward the Pro. The Harvard-Yale rivalry was still around--he would drink to it, after The Game...
Ranking Government officials, who had left Harry Truman to mourn alone at what they thought would be his own wake, now scrambled for places at the trainside. Outwardly, at least, the President was forgiving & forgetting. He even had a smile for South Carolina's Senator Olin D. Johnston, a pioneer of the Southern civil rights revolt, who said he voted for the President...
...hollow of his threat was glistening, for he was working hard, plucking handfuls of notes from his guitar and circling the hall with his voice. When he announced a song the audience knew, they picked it up with a murmur and relished it among themselves with a nod or smile. They came back at him with a verse if he asked for it. Singing "Old Smokey," he threw the words at them one line at a time, catching them again when his chord changed and gave the group their...
...people cheered a bit as the returns over two television sets and a loudspeaker showed that Truman was holding on. In the center of the cheering, there was a small crowd of Young Republicans and their girls, formally dressed, drinking champagne, and never a one of them cracking a smile. But both sides knew that when the returns started to roll in, Dewey would pull out front; and neither side knew what would happen in the Senate or the House of Representatives. So nobody was excited...
Governor Dewey came down the runway into the biggest ovation Boston has seen since Franklin Roosevelt. A solid wall of noise filled the hall for five minutes. Through it all, Dewey stood to one side of the podium, his head raised, his arms outstretched to the cheers, his face smiling. It is quite true that he smiles very badly. The trouble is he can't smile slowly--one instant his face is serious and then very suddenly, as if a switch has been thrown, he is grinning rigidly and coldly...