Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pull off while hopping in and out between the two rhythmically clapping bamboo poles. So while he was over at the Philippine embassy in Washington to accept an award, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, 48, gamely shed shoes and tried his foot at it. He even managed a smile when a spectator sport heckled: "Go under it, man! Limbo...
...secretary, Joe Tumulty, his doctor, Admiral Cary Grayson, and Edith knew his true condition. For five months Wilson lay flat on his back. His wife had to read to him. If a document needed his signature, his wife guided his trembling hand. His face was set in a senseless smile. At times, he would cry inconsolably. In contrast to the almost embarrassingly candid reports on Eisenhower's physical condition, Wilson's entourage of doctors constantly issued bland, reassuring medical bulletins...
Harrington will probably continue his personal vandetta against poverty. He is only in his thirties, but seems oblivious to the pleasures which success might bring. When he isn't telling stories, discussing politics or literature, Harrington talks about the poor and their problems. All he can do is smile with frustration when forced to talk of himself. "When I applied for a residence permit in France, they actually ushered me past a huge line and took me to the V.I.P.'s window. They thought I was some sort of celebrity!" And then he brushes his short, uncombed hair down over...
From behind the eyeglasses of Winter Light and the pervasive gloom of all these characters, the girl who steps out is a natural blonde with bright blue eyes, a large mobile mouth, and a smile that is not quite too cool to be overpowering. She is an actress of prodigious experience who has been in 30 movies and twice as many plays, an accomplished classicist who prompts the purplest critics in the frozen north to write that she "fills every corner of the stage with feminine sovereignty, beauty, sex and nerves-a star shining by its own power without reflection...
...memorable point in the hearings, McCarthy notes in passing that no one knows who is to be President in '56 or '60. There is a pause as he listens to what he has just said, and a sly smile creeps over his features. He flashes a little self-congratulatory salute to a spectator. This was McCarthy, three parts guile and one part in-genuousness; whose ambition knew no rest; who was a dangerous man. And here, preserved for coming generations, are his opponents, frightened and intimidated men joined in a crusade to save their own skins. Point of Order looks...