Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit for a Labor Day speech, Truman was in mid-campaign form. The Democratic nominee in 1956, cried Truman, will "not be the kind of man who will give you a big smile and some nice promises in the political campaign and then turn you over to your enemies for the next four years . . . You are-we all are-confronted with the opposition or indifference of an Administration dominated by big business, an Administration concerned more with dollars than with people...
...acquaint Britons with I Love Lucy (scheduled to compete with BBC's prize variety hour, The Ted Ray Show), Dragnet, Hopalong Cassidy, Ed Murrow's Person to Person, and Billy Graham. Last fortnight the contracts were signed for the import of Liberace, complete with candelabra and toothy smile. But many of the home-grown products will bear a resemblance to U.S. shows. Example: Sunday Night at the Palladium, featuring such stars as Gracie Fields and Johnnie Ray, will be a vaudeville hour on the lines of Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town. Basically, the commercial TVmen...
...awry, his cigarette hung slackly from his lips, a mood curls out into the room like smoke. He begins to sing, hips down and shoulders hunched, hands shaping the big rhythms and eyes rolling with each low-down line. The musicians come to life, the wallbirds start to smile and weave with the very special sound that is Sinatra. Instead of the old adolescent moo, the Sinatra voice now has a jazzy undertone of roostering confidence, and a kind of jewel hardness that can take on blue and give off fire with subtlety and fascination...
...magnetic smile, which he has perfected across the years, now in death crinkled slightly about his full lips. Though his eyes were closed, he appeared any minute to be ready to raise himself from his new bondage and greet each mourner by name, with a lusty handshake and a resounding slap on the back...
Maybe on summer mornings now, he manages a sheepish smile for his wife...