Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head monk, Thich Tarn Chau, handed the government his umpteenth ultimatum: If all Buddhist grievances were not resolved by Oct. 27, the religious community would call a general strike. What were the grievances? Said Chau, with deliberate vagueness: "Provocations and oppressions." Announced one influential monk, with his usual beatific smile: "Not a single Buddhist is satisfied." Out went the word to the bonzes: Begin a 48-hour period of prayer. Yet Khanh, by striving to placate the Buddhists, had aroused alarmed rumblings from Catholics, who charged that the Buddhists were using him to take over the country...
...newsmen hovered, the opponents moved in and out of the closed courtroom like Henry James characters, their real motives invisible for hundreds of pages. Mrs. Rockefeller arrived on the first day with her husband's state police bodyguard and Chrysler Imperial. She graciously smiled her way into battle in a blue sheath dress, bare legs and black flat-heeled shoes, accompanied by four lawyers, a nursemaid and Mrs. Peter Iselin, one of her Philadelphia cousins. Dr. Murphy, his new blonde wife in demure beige, said, "I can't smile." In they walked, past a wall plaque reading...
...cheers. "I accept your nomination," he began. "I accept the duty of leading this party to victory." When he added, "I thank you for placing at my side the man you; so wisely selected to be the next Vice President," the delegates burst into laughter. Even Lyndon had to smile...
Time after time, he capped his indictments with the drumbeat cry: "But not Senator Goldwater!" He occasionally switched it to "not the temporary Republican spokesman." The delegates caught the cadence and took up the chant. A quizzical smile spread across Humphrey's face, then turned to a laugh of triumph. Hubert was in fine form. He knew it. The delegates knew it. And no one could deny that Hubert Humphrey would be a formidable political antagonist in the weeks ahead...
...Tammy Teen will, and she will squeal over Sean just as loud as mother eeeeeked for Errol. The boy looks like his old man-he has the same empty, eager eyes and the same silly, lopsided smile. And the young pup acts like the old dog too-he is already known in the trade as Flynn-Tin-Tin. But Sean has something going for him besides his moniker. He has an All-American body and a wild Irish charm. He seems born to be a Hollywood buccaneer and climb upon the rigging like his daddy used...