Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martha Link Quick, 85, who had gone to school with Ike's mother and turned out to be his distant cousins. He had come to Fredericksburg, said the President, "to pay tribute to the state which gave Washington his mother and gave me mine." Then, with a parting smile for his newfound cousins, the President got back in his car and drove home to Washington in the rain...
...lemon slice on a filet-Bidault sometimes amuses himself by classifying each guest as "dog" or "cat." He insists he is "dog," but many others-including Madame Bidault-would classify Georges Bidault as "cat." He has a catlike walk, a heavy-lidded, sleepy, catlike look, and a catlike smile. In politics and diplomacy he walks fences with a cat's tread, pounces like a tiger on a succulent opportunity...
...popular opinion in his own nation to answer to and thus can pretend a monolithic support that does not exist. At Geneva he confronted a West whose purposes are suddenly cloudy, whose unity is cracked and whose will power is sapped. The dissembler could afford his mocking smile...
...mate, who tells the story, bangs on the weather-beaten shacks of a Florida port town and rounds up the men; sometimes it ends before dusk, sometimes later. Where the ship hunts for pogy is strictly the business of Captain Crother. a white man who rarely cracks a smile because the Moona Waa Togue is his last stop on a downhill career. How much pogy is caught is everybody's business, for the men sharecrop the catch, getting a dime apiece for every...
Army Secretary Stevens-whose testimony had been briefly interrupted by Smith's-returned to the witness table. As he read his prepared statement, he nervously licked his lips and forced his smile; his was the bemusement of a gentleman caught in a wharf brawl. Yet he was the man on whom the Army's case largely depended, and it was behind him that the Army's top echelons had rallied...