Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afraid of you ... in or out of jail," bellows Senator McClellan, and Senator Symington hoots: "Go see a psychiatrist." Even Counsel Cohn looks as though he longed to desert the sinking ship. As for McCarthy, he just sits there with a strange and frightening look on his face: a smile that is some how vicious, a grin like the grin of a wounded and desperate hyena. The look is the look of a very sick man, and it did more to damage McCarthy's case than any evidence introduced against him. When the hearings were finished, McCarthy was finished...
...obvious that the girl had talent. She could talk to a television camera as if it were her pastor. She could smile lovingly at a new car and slip into the driver's seat while letting only a proper amount of knee show. She had a Grey Lady's sincerity and a sorority sister's charm. And she earned $150,000 a year as the Chrysler Girl on television. Then she suddenly announced she was giving it all up for grand opera. That's right, honey, her friends told her, lots of luck...
...gold medal in men's Alpine skiing at the 1956 Olympics. "I would bet on her to win at Innsbruck." Paris' Le Monde rhapsodized over Jean's "sang-froid," her sureness, her precision, and L'Equipe celebrated her "sweetness of manner, happy healthiness, and dazzling smile." Jean was busy talking about teaching school and joining the Peace Corps, and when people asked her why she skied so much faster than everybody else, she just smiled sweetly and said: "Gee, I don't know. Why don't you ask the others...
...Appalachians, then leaned back against a white pillow. In the dimmed cabin light, his dark, impassive face seemed enlivened only by his big, shiny, compelling eyes. Suddenly, the plane shuddered in a pocket of severe turbulence. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his companion and said: "I guess that's Birmingham down below...
...such occasions, a visitor once recalled, Emma's husband would sit in a corner listening without comment and with a "rather wry smile" on his face...