Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entryway. In the dimness of a tiny front room sat the hunted old man. There was no mistaking Admiral Suzuki, although he wore a commonplace green uniform with no medals or brass buttons. He was a tall, impressive figure, grey-haired, with a short-clipped mustache and a winning smile. His greeting was cordial, but he looked about him carefully when they entered...
Kagawa is a small man with a ready smile, a forthright, friendly personality, and clothes as shabby as most Japanese. I had been told he was more likely than any to speak the truth about Japanese politics. This has been a police state, but his answers, in his own emphatic brand of English, were without hesitation or circumlocution...
...Mechanized farming, wilful waste and modern youth's snobbish contempt for the land are reducing the American countryman to the same degenerate level as the city dweller, i.e., a soulless, luxury-mad "parasite on the good earth" who wanders through life "with a kindly, moronic smile of self satisfaction...
...there was no smile on the face of new Boeing President William M. Allen, a thin, balding legal counsel of Boeing for 20 years. He had just stepped into...
...General Smiles. General of the Army Douglas Mac Arthur was a different man. As he stepped from his transport plane Bataan his sternly sculptured features relaxed in an easy smile. The austere man who used to forget faces called first names, clasped hands, and complimented the military band. Later he dined with his junior officers; he had not done so since...