Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps, another and reverse shift is due. Eisenhower has named to the job a stocky, straight-shouldered man with a strong nose, bleak blue eyes and a disarming smile. George Magoffin Humphrey, 62, is the 55th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. By all readable portents he will be the first in a generation to restore Treasury to its function of high policymaking-by fiscal leadership-not by bureaucratic control of business...
...serious and timely warning."' The warning: "TREAD LIGHTLY-PROUD FOOT! That great power . . . was not put there to enable a Cadillac to dominate the highway or to dash into the lead when the traffic light turns green . . . If other drivers covet the honors at the stop light-just smile and let them go. They are first away by your courtesy . . . Just be happy and satisfied...
...sworn in without a sound of protest; his wiser foes were sure that a challenge would have been voted down by the Senate. As he walked back to his seat, Joe seemed relaxed. When he passed Senator Hayden, he clapped the "lackey" on the back and smiled a big smile. Hayden made a face...
...Braddon ate cats, dogs, snakes, grubs, fungus and leaves. He notes that "snake tastes like gritty chicken mixed with fish; dog tastes like rather coarse beef; cat like rabbit, only better." The camp had its rare saints, and one was the Anglican padre, Noel Duckworth. Putting on a winning smile, he would call to some brutish guard: "Come here, you charming little lump of garbage, and buy this perfectly worthless pen." The proceeds always went for food for all prisoners. Day in & day out, the padre conducted an average of three funerals as the men died of dysentery, beriberi, malaria...
LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, Spain's best bullfighter, came last week to conquer Mexico. As he appeared in the door of his plane, Dominguin gave the airport crowd a small, arrogant smile and a regal wave. Two burly bodyguards closed in beside him and a motorcycle escort whisked him off to his hotel...