Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Basically she is intelligent, happy, busy. In terms of a liberal education she is pretty chaotic and ought to be pinned down carefully to performance compatible with her abilities. It is no kindness to her to let her breeze through Bennington on cliches and a happy smile...
...watch them," said an attendant at M.I.T.'s Charles Hayden Memorial Library last week. "They walk around with a half-smile as if they were really enjoying it." What the M.I.T. students were crowding in to see was not the usual collection of old masters or the latest in advance-guard painting. Instead, the Institute was exhibiting a sample of an ancient and vanishing American art: the carved wooden Indians and trade symbols that merchants used to advertise their wares 100 years...
...20th District. As Harriman's manager, he has the powerful Harry Truman-Adlai Stevenson wing of the party solidly behind his candidate. He was airily confident last week that Harriman will be a shoo-in for the nomination by convention time. Said he, flashing the familiar family smile: "I've never been in on a losing political race yet, and I don't expect to be this time...
Turk's Private War. The cops pulled their prey into daylight and eyed him warily. "Have you a gun?" one asked. The man coyly examined himself, peeked inside his undershirt with a smile. "No," he said. The cops let their man dress and breakfast on ham & eggs, then carted him off triumphantly to Amsterdam. At last they had captured the notorious Captain Raymond ("Turk") Westerling, international buccaneer and soldier of misfortune...
...quick smile turned to a frown...