Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When President Eisenhower strode into his press-conference room one morning last week, 212 inquisitive reporters were waiting. The President gave them a quick smile, squared his shoulders to face their barrage of straight and curved questions. In the next 27 minutes, the press and the President provided ample evidence that 1) the President of the U.S. faces more big and little problems than any other man in the world, and 2) he is fully expected to talk about any or all of them, in minute detail, and on the spur of the moment...
Nearly every child got a warm smile and a word of encouragement from Dr. Salk, who obviously enjoys working with them. Some who were yelling with fright he calmed easily. He waved along the few who could not be pacified-he would rather miss an injection than give one to a hysterical child...
...three tense hours, delegates to the Tenth Inter-American Conference had voted clause by clause on the U.S. anti-Communist resolution, a state paper that went well beyond the vague and timid declarations of earlier conferences. After the 51st ballot, Secretary of State Dulles allowed himself a pleased smile. Final vote: 17 to 1 for the U.S. proposal...
...reading that the Loire during the French Revolution was "red with blood from Saumur to Nantes, a length of 45 miles." But Dumas' romantic novels enchant them with the news of life they find there, i.e., that "love observes the proprieties, fanaticism is lighthearted, massacres excite a smile." Flaubert's unwritten but clearly foreshadowed ending: frustrated and impoverished, the simpletons go back to work as copying clerks...
...beginning, piercing lamentations arose last week from Wallagrass, Maine to San Ysidro, Calif. Some U.S. taxpayers tried to smile through their tears. Along with their painfully signed checks, they sent the usual enclosures: old shirts ("Here's the shirt off my back; you have everything else"), locks of hair ("I've been clipped"), and pieces of human skin carefully taped to cards ("You got my hide...