Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ludicrously small, with suitcases for desks, the specialists tried to get some order into a parley that had no agenda. Atomic Expert Strauss disappeared almost immediately with Sir Winston's friend and atomic adviser, Lord Cherwell. They went off "to buy some underwear," said an official with a smile...
...waved back, his pale, sharp face bearing an extraordinarily charming smile...
There is a press around the door as the Pope moves to leave; people rush forward to talk to him again. But his valet has already placed a small white fur cape around his shoulders, and the chamberlains wait impatiently. A last smile, and he is gone...
...after dinner speech. Half listened, until they heard the words: "...White was known to be a Communist spy by the very people who appointed him to the most sensitive and important position he ever hold." An angry buzz, the properly indignant grant, a happy I-told-you-so smile. As one executive calmly lit his cigar, Attorney General Herbert Brownell lit the fuse that set off partisan charge and countercharge across the nation...
...beamed from a box while Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted the New York Philharmonic. After the concert, the King awarded Maestro Mitropoulos the decoration of Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix. As photographers' flashbulbs went off, the Queen, by now used to the chin-up-and-smile orders barked at her, complied expertly, quipped to the picture-takers: "You'd think we'd been trained in Hollywood...