Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ramp, looking even taller than his 6 ft. 4 in., even thinner than his pictures. As his foot touched the ground, the 17-gun salute to a general roared into the hazy heat (four guns less than the salute for the head of a state). The faint est smile passed across the grey, impassive face of Charles de Gaulle...
Just before heading for Manhattan, General de Gaulle, giving the first real smile of his visit, held a press conference...
Young Man in a Hurry. After Columbia Law School, Tom Dewey went into the substantial law firm of MacNamara & Seymour. And he met a G.O.P. district leader, who put the bustling young man with the ready, dimpled smile to work ringing doorbells. Within three years he became an officer of New York City's Young Republican Club, had been spotted as a comer by U.S. District Attorney George Zerdin Medalie. Just 29, Thomas Dewey became Chief Assistant to District Attorney Medalie and the administrative head of the largest prosecuting office in the federal Government, with 60 lawyers under...
Cherry Ripe., Stubby, troubled Shimada, with his Prussian hairdo and his overripe cherry mouth, was not going to feel the warm smile of history. But he had worked hard to win it. No less than six times he had been assigned to the General Staff; the first five were considered successful. Between these tours of duty he had commanded a submarine division, a cruiser, the battleship Hiei, finally (in 1940 and early 1941) the Third Fleet, entrusted with blockade of the China coast toward which Nimitz now aims...
...reservations for Chicago, he said it was not true. He firmly denied that he was working on an acceptance speech. To GOPoliticos from all points of the compass who tried to get just the merest hint of a promise in return for their votes, Dewey turned a maddeningly bland smile...