Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith's records do more than make military operations easier. "One of the biggest things we have to lick in soldiers serving overseas," he explains, "is homesickness. If a soldier knows the basic phrases of a language, he'll get a smile instead of a blank stare, and he'll begin to feel that he 'belongs...
First they tried the main reading room. Elderly gent there cracked no smile, said, better see Mr. Haines. Went in to the delivery desk. Young guy said well gee, I don't know. Why don't you ask that gentleman at the desk? Asked him. Frankly puzzled, said well you'd better see Miss Conlin...
Philosophic General Hsiung, who at 50 has the bland face of a schoolboy, departed with his usual smile, said only that he and Franklin Roosevelt had discussed the "Pacific situation." Was it true that he was being recalled because of dissatisfaction with United Nations cooperation and the trickle of Lend-Lease aid? The General replied tactfully: "We should never be satisfied unless our enemy is completely defeated...
...submarine's black foredeck another knot of men stood. They were pale and bearded. They showed no emotion, only a smile here & there as friends on the dock tossed out coarse, friendly greetings. The submarine's skipper, Lieut. Commander Henry C. Bruton, stood on the bridge, giving quiet orders...
...books by two totally dissimilar writers - Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' best-selling Cross Creek ($2.50), Essayist E. B. White's sane and salty One Man's Meat ($2.50). Ludwig Bemelmans, a first-rate light storyteller with a surpassing light style, criticized human foibles with a sweet smile in I Love You, I Love You, I Love You ($2.50). But it remained for Humorist James Thurber, reporting on A.D. 1942!s general state of affairs in My World - And Welcome to It ($2.50), to pay the year off most succinctly and devastatingly. "Man," he said, "would seem...