Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulganin, at that time Soviet military commander in Poland, arrived in Lublin and sent word that I should call on him immediately. I told the general, 'If the general is in such a hurry, let him come to me.' Imagine, he arrived some minutes later with a smile on his lips...
...their phones when he calls-and the harried businessman responds like a hermit in the grip of a mystical experience: "He saw it all. He couldn't stop talking. He would get his backing, he would recoup, he would be a power in the industry again. Everyone would smile. He would be popular, universally admired. His visions soared ..." Just as quickly, his hopes plummet. But at the story's end, there is the feeling that a man who has already dodged disaster in Berlin, in Prague and in Paris will suffer only slight damage in Southern California...
...sitting in Hayes-Bickford, Mr. Brunner, and you wonder whether that beard-and-sandals across the aisle is real, look to see if he has a smile on his face...
...rusty foghorn? A voice? Or merely a noise produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation of the legs? Words occasionally can be made out, like raisins in cornmeal mush. "Goan . . . git . . . luhhv . . ." And then all at once everything stops, and a big, trembly tender half smile, half sneer smears slowly across the CinemaScope screen. The message that millions of U.S. teen-age girls love to receive has just been delivered...
...come into their quiet lives. Brother Thomas, the cook, a man as simple and round and solid as Mother Earth, took charge of the situation. The child was crying. Brother Thomas dipped a cloth in water and gave it to him to suck. The crying stopped. Everybody began to smile. A young monk turned to the Father Superior with a pleading look. "C-can we keep him. Father...