Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes the message comes from a waddling polar bear, sometimes from a skating penguin, a magic rabbit or a talking dog. Sometimes it comes in a display of hurtling rockets, spinning alphabets or galaxies of exploding stars. If the pitch is entrusted to a human, there is always the smile - broad, ecstatic, spreading from one side of the screen to the other as it expresses satisfaction over a cigarette, a glass of beer, a bright new refrigerator...
Stopping over in Hong Kong, Damle, with a smile and a shrug, told a reporter that the stories of Red China's purge had been greatly exaggerated. "Some few hundreds have been shot in Peking and its neighborhood," said he, "but these were mostly scoundrels who have committed misdemeanors under the old regime and who are receiving their just deserts." Furthermore, Damle added in admiring tones, Communist China's trains are running on time...
...brave as he is humble." In fact, humble-with the "h" silent-was the word for Harry at Denver. It was not the word for the Democrats. Boss Jake Arvey, grinning as the Democrats chose his Chicago bailiwick for the 1952 convention, said: "This isn't a smile of victory, it's a smile of confidence." Bill Boyle, the Democrats' national chairman, announced that "voting trends" and reports from party leaders in every state, "point conclusively to another sweeping Democratic victory in the 1952 election...
This week Joe Adonis was sentenced to serve from two to three years in prison and pay a $15,000 fine. Adonis took his sentence with a smile, said "I'm not sore at anybody...
Nebraska-born Wright Morris, 41, now lives in Pennsylvania, divides his time between writing and photography (he has written five previous books, illustrated two of them). Man and Boy has some important faults: it is sometimes slickly sentimental, and the coarse humor does not always make the reader smile, as it is intended to. It nonetheless belongs among the best novels this spring...