Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Square. There were more newsmen to be brushed aside. Under the canopy huddled a group of women; one stepped forth and said bravely: "It's a pleasure to have you for a neighbor." Mrs. Roosevelt, deep in the what-did-I-forget daze of moving day, managed a smile, waved a hand...
...human beings, the book will be an eminent pleasure to read. It is not within miles of faultlessness; it is not the kind of book that tries to be. It is as placidly worked as a cow works her cud, and naive enough, sometimes, to make that cow smile; but the book contains some of the gentlest, most beautiful writing about American living that has ever been done. For though Anderson, as he says, was "but a minor figure," he is no less significant and symbolic an American than Abraham Lincoln, no less deeply bred of the humane earth...
...nurse smiled sweetly at him (everyone seems to smile sweetly in here, thought Vag) and after swabbing his arm, jabbed a hypo with novocaine into it. A few minutes later the nurse inserted the needle through which the blood would flow. This time Vag didn't feel a thing. "Now open and close your first steadily," said the nurse. "How soon does the blood begin to flow?" asked Vag. "Why, the bottle is a third full already," she replied. Vag could feel nothing, although his hand began to tingle after a few minutes. Then it didn't tingle any more...
...military supplies." Near Zamboanga they crept in camouflaged force toward one side of the town, made as much noise as Kilkenny cats on the other, then rushed against the rear of the "alert" Japanese into the very heart of town. They killed some Japanese and vanished, except for a smile-for they had found they could lick more than their own weight in Japanese...
...works for his keep, and four undergraduate years of walking from his Somerville home to the Yard and back have endowed him with an insight into the problems of the commuter. The product is a truly sympathetic interviewer behind the desk in University M, rather than a mere affable smile. Frequent usage has made almost trite the comment that "When you tell Mr. Duhig" (emphasis on "Duhig") "that you need help, he knows what you're talking about...