Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Interior's Passport Section. As my protectors and I arrived at the office of a Captain Sabry, one of them said: 'I was spit on only once climbing the stairs ; I guess that's par for the course.' With a face-cracking smile the captain demanded my passport, flipped through it and said: 'Your residence visa has expired.' I pointed out that it had just been renewed. Said he : 'I am cancelling it. You will get a temporary visa. You will leave Egypt within seven days...
...name is Juliana ..." Then she spoke of her family, finally of her children. "You will see them among you . . . for we do not lock ourselves up-it just is not in our nature ... I rather think that they are very sweet children. Above all things, they smile quite easily. Please give them your smile and they will be happy and they will ask for very little more...
...nation she asked more than a smile; she asked respect: "Whatever you do, do not give me your pity. No woman ever felt as proud as I do of the marvelous heritage of my own people . . . They had always maintained the right of the individual to his own liberty ... of his person and ... of his soul. . . Placed before the terrible choice of surrendering those rights or of dying in their defense, they never hesitated . . . Pity is for the weak, and our terrible fate has made us stronger than ever before...
...crowds will bark out a good loud "Hiep, hiep, hiep, hoera!" The woman who asked people to smile at her children will be Queen of The Netherlands...
...conference on Danube navigation closed with a Western whimper last week, just about the only thing the U.S. could smile about was a news picture from Belgrade (see cut). It showed Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in earnest conversation with Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler. The naked lady who turns away from M. Vishinsky with chaste horror is Truth Warding Off Evil, by the Croat sculptor, Frano Krshinich...