Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suicide. Historians smile at the thought. In 81 years, the Phils have won only two pennants (in 1915 and 1950), and Mauch may be the only manager in history who took a demotion from the minors to the major leagues. A tense, cold-eyed baseball strategist who took the Minneapolis Millers to two straight Junior World Series, he got the Philadelphia job in 1960 when Eddie Sawyer quit after the first game, explaining, "I'm 49 years old and I want to live to be 50." The Phils welcomed their new manager the way they knew best: by finishing...
Most of all, Lewis restored central management to a company whose dozen divisions once traveled in separate directions. Says he with a smile: "We used to have a so-called management board-but, oh boy, that's all gone." Lewis, who likes to chop wood on weekends to release some steam, hacked away heavily at the loose hierarchy and put his mark on almost every important activity. Though many business theorists contend that a top executive should have no more than eight men reporting directly to him, Lewis deals face to face with 24. He writes no memos...
...fewer than 10 billion conversations a year. A.T.&T. executives are encouraged to lead civic-uplift drives, and to join many public service groups. Once they have joined, they frequently volunteer to make speeches about A.T. & T. or show company films, preaching such slogans as "The Voice with a Smile Is Still Behind Your Dial" and "Whatever the Future Brings, It's Still People Talking...
...return to the front. He believed that he could convey the suffering of his fellow men only by sharing it. He won the Military Cross for capturing a number of machine guns and German prisoners: "I only shot one man with my revolver; the others I took with a smile." A week before the Armistice, Owen was leading his company across the Sambre Canal when he was hit and killed...
Moravia's pattern is distinctive but invariable: a Roman lowlife, male, gives a fourth-drink, first-person account of some minor downfall, failing to see its subtleties and thereby allowing the reader a faint, wry smile. The only thing wrong with the formula is that it does not require much space, and the reader is given only four or five pages between wry smiles. If the book is used as night-table literature, even the weariest citizen cannot achieve unconsciousness without meeting, say, the indignant wife of Federico the upright thief, the witless teen-ager who lives to dance...