Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duelists. The first German Chancellor ever to visit Russia relieved this aura of bristly independence with a friendly smile as he stepped lightly down the gangway and grasped the warmly extended hand of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin...
Pibulsonggram moved swiftly, in the new democratic fashion. With a big smile, he summoned Pao and dispatched him in his capacity as deputy finance minister, to Washington to see about a new U.S. loan. The plane was hardly off the ground before the Premier began separating Pao and his relatives from their extra jobs and it had hardly landed in the U.S. before Pibulsonggram made himself interior minister and promised to stop opium smuggling...
...weekly press conference, Pibulsonggram was asked if there was bad blood between the Premier and the police chief. Certainly not. said the Premier with a gentle smile. "I told him: 'We are going the democracy way now.' He answered: 'If you go democracy, I go along...
...rain at a cemetery as his wife-very rich and too old for him-is laid to rest. His friends are touched by his noble composure in the face of tragedy. Then he goes home alone, glances at the huge portrait of his late wife, and his satisfied smile confirms the growing suspicion that foul murder has been done. The camera switches to the mansion's cellar, where Housemaid Jean Simmons, her wits sharpened by adversity, has just finished dosing some rats with a little of the medicine that was given to her ailing mistress. The rats are dead...
...concept, he asserts, is false. Modern man needs greater understanding of "the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part." The idea of a world for man's use only is unrealizable. Long ago Alexander Pope summed it up with a smile...