Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just to get it out of my mind. But once in a while we look at the clock and I pray-like in my mind. I pray neither of them gets hurt. After all, the other boy has a mother, too; he is human. Also," she adds with a smile, "I want...
...little boy named Hans Koegel appeared at the doorway of the Schule in der Blu-menstrasse and nervously entered. Like other children arriving for the first day of school, he clung tightly to his mother, and it was not for several awkward moments that he finally relaxed enough to smile tentatively at his classmates. But even after he did so, his mother and teacher continued to watch him closely...
There was sharp contrast, too, in the two men's speeches. Plaza spoke briefly, sat down smiling. Velasco soon wiped the genial smile off Plaza's face. In a rasping 14,000-word oration, he declared that he was taking over "a country in very bad shape," and directly or indirectly accused Plaza & Co. of corruption and incompetence. He called for price controls, public works, aid to agriculture, and virtually unlimited authority for himself...
...place him in a sphere far outside that of the ordinary undergraduate. To the average Harvard student Conant at times appears little more than a glossy figure-head who journeys around the country gaining prestige while the University is run by some people over in University Hall. Faculty members smile gently at this notion; they realize that Conant, as he should be, is by far the most influential figure in the administration of the University, and that his influence stems not only from his intellectual leadership, but also from plain administrative power. In fact, at one period the faculty considered...
...coaches who would gladly settle for that much-maligned 16-18-2 four-year record. His competence meant little, however, to the Old Blue fanatics, who watched a Yale defeat on Saturday and then turned on their television sets on Sunday to see Herman, en masse, daring to smile and joke. This could not only be considered sacrilegious, it was sacrilegious...