Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...renascence in official thinking. Last year, we could not blame anyone for suggesting that the House-masters were gradually sloughing off their social monasticism. Whispers crept about the college that a half-decent set of rules might appear from the bowels of University Hall, and the Housemasters seemed to smile benignly about...
When he had finished, the reporter from the Communist Daily Worker asked him if his collective punishment policy was not the same as that used by the Nazis. Templer's lip curled into a smile like a soundless snarl. Grimly he recited the prosaic, ghastly facts & figures he had had to deal with. "I notice you do not deny using the Fascist system," said the Daily Worker reporter. "Didn't bother to," said Templer. The Communist reporter asked: "What is the level of anemic malnutrition in Malaya?" Answered Ternpier: "I haven't the vaguest idea." The reporter...
Finally, the officials criticize the ratio plan because it would give commuters "special privileges." A commuting student may be forgive an unamused smile when he hears "commuter" and "special privileges" linked. Those commuters who must retrace two to five miles after dinner for their books have a considerable inconvenience, not a privilege, in their use of Lamont...
...Woman of the Year,* for women seldom make big headlines; but as a refreshing symbol of something good and old-fashioned in a cynical world, I'd like to nominate a young woman who is tackling a boring and exacting job with grace, integrity and a charming smile -England's Queen, Elizabeth...
Although Aldrich always meant to go back to the law, he found he enjoyed the starchy formality of banking. Once, with a wry grin, he told a friend: "I never smile south of Canal Street." Long an outspoken critic of New and Fair Deal economics, he served this year on the National Republican finance committee. Created a Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire in 1947, he looks on Britain as his "second home abroad...