Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most part, Chou himself struggled valiantly to sustain his own air of modesty and hearty good-fellowship. "A newly established big country like China," he assured his hosts with a wide smile, "is apt to cause suspicions and fears among smaller countries. Therefore, China must make even stricter demands upon itself and fight against the tendency toward great nation chauvinism...
...Smiling, sleek and self-effacing, his air transport borne aloft on a roseate cloud of good will, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai last week dropped in to New Delhi to pay a call on Jawaharlal Nehru. As blandly charming and tactful as Khrushchev and Bulganin had been blunt and boorish just a year ago, Chou seemed determined to win a smile from Nehru, who was just a mite disillusioned about his Russian friends. As he stepped from his plane, Chou cheerfully endured the perils of a blizzard of tossed rose petals and the weight of garlands...
...After posing indoors for other lensmen, Churchill heard a game try at felicitation from one. "Sir Winston," called the photographer, "I hope to take your picture on your hundredth birthday!" The old man turned and regarded the well-wisher with a scorching glare leavened with a trace of a smile. "I see no reason why you shouldn't, young man," rumbled he. "You look hale and hearty enough...
...successful export to the U.S. since French fried potatoes and Chanel No. 5. Her neat, sentimentally acid little accounts of old-hearted juveniles and middle-aged delinquents were widely cheered by the critics, eagerly bought by the customers. Still on the bestseller list after 16 weeks is A Certain Smile (TiME, Aug. 20), a thin quadrangle story about an ever-so-wise teenager, her ever-so-world-weary lover, the lover's all-understanding wife and the girl's rather sappy boy friend. In Harper's Bazaar, witty Playwright Jean Kerr (wife of New York Drama Critic...
...were in Anatole's open car. Overhead the sky was blue as a bruise. Anatole's voice seemed to come from a great distance: "Bored, darling?" I turned to him. "Of course-and you?" His answering smile told me that...