Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times will keep a total of 650,000 a day, second only to the Trib's 1,000,000. "From now on," a Field executive chirped hopefully, "we'll concentrate on Hearst,* and get at McCormick sideways. " His optimism was not contagious. Marshall Field, his pleasant smile and soft voice gone for once, snapped: "I have nothing to say-on or off the record...
Touch of Sadness. But both crowd and committee were slightly nonplussed when Petrillo sat down in the bright glare of the lights. He was dressed as quietly as a banker and he smiled a happy smile, like a man back at last among his dearest friends...
Kick Over Every Pot. Lombardo ran a handkerchief-covered finger inside his sweaty collar. With a mocking smile, Party Leader Pietro Nenni handed him a glass of water. "You say that the Marshall Plan ruins our chances of trading with Russia," Lombardo continued. "Do you know what percentage of our imports came from Russia? 1%." A deafening roar swept up from the audience. In a last effort, Lombardo shouted: "To sabotage the Marshall Plan is to kick over every pot in every Italian kitchen...
Thunder-Stroock. "We're thunder-stroock but not conscience-stroock," punned Gimbels in a frozen-smile ad. The Manhattan department store had sold scores of coats which it had advertised as being 60% Stroock cashmere, then discovered that some of them were 59% camel's hair with counterfeit "Stroock" labels. With embarrassed apologies to its customers and Stroock ("We hope it won't happen again"), Gimbels offered to take them back...
...first, all was as friendly as Scheherazade's smile. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin hailed Britain'snew 20-year alliance with Iraq as the start of an era "regularizing and expressing the friendship between this country and the Arabic world." The treaty with Iraq confirmed Britain's right to-keep troops in Iraq, train and arm the Iraqi army, maintain airbases. Iraq's Regent Abdul Illah replied to a congratulatory message from Bevin: "I recall with appreciation your precious efforts that have led to this happy result...