Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to be that simple. This time newsmen peppered him with hot questions about Nicaragua's explosive political situation. Questions like that, snapped Shaw, were out of bounds. Next morning the Managua press let him have it. "Former U.S. ambassadors used to turn away our questions with a smile," wrote one correspondent. "Shaw does it with austerity...
...Even a Smile. Dr. Freeman, though no debunker, is too conscientious a historian to duck any ugliness that must out. Young Washington is proof enough of that. He himself is aware that the first two volumes add few cubits to George Washington's stature. In the Virginia of Washington's day, writes Dr. Freeman, "One verb told the story . . . grab, grab, grab." Washington's father and grandfather had been successful grabbers in a relatively small way. Father Augustine (he was called Gus) could afford to send two of his sons to school in England, though George...
Next morning the auto was gone again and there was a smile on the face of Officer Shamus Finnegan. "If they're going to be that way about parking," groaned Bottle, "I shan't bother to pick it up until I have occasion...
...makes Matisse one of the greatest painters living. But the moment the camera closes in on the 78-year-old master himself, Matisse takes charge. Blinking a little behind his gold-rimmed glasses (the floodlights apparently bothered him), Matisse faces the camera and his invisible interrogator with a grandfatherly smile, direct and forceful...
...crowd thought they might be seeing a tennis match. But by the seventh game, Parker had figured out the Sidwell serve, and was methodically running the Australian ragged with lobs to the base line and trap shots just over the net. Parker won without cracking a smile or dropping...