Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smile, Nigger!" Even if there had been no students jeering him and no U.S. marshals guarding him, Meredith would have been a strange figure on that campus. At 29. he was visibly older than his fellow students. His somber suit, neatly knotted tie and shined shoes contrasted with the campus' standard male garb of white shirt, khaki trousers and scuffed loafers. And above all other differences, he was a Negro, the only one in the entire state of Mississippi who had broken through the public education system's segregation barrier...
...back to his dormitory. "Hey. taxi!" a student yelled. "I wish I had a taxi to take me around campus.'' The hissing intensified, and Meredith quickened his pace. As he reached the car and faced a battery of waiting news photographers, the students broke into loud jeers. "Smile, nigger, smile!" they called. The marshals hustled him into the back seat and the car drove away, followed by two U.S. Army weapons carriers loaded with steel-helmeted soldiers grasping rifles with bayonets attached...
First on the scene was Juan Carlos. The prince stepped off the plane from Lisbon with an inappropriately gay smile and wearing impeccably cut sports clothes. Accompanied by his wife, Greek Princess Sophie, he set out for an inspection trip surrounded by foppishly elegant Catalan aristocrats. They were received unenthusiastically by small crowds of grieving townsfolk. Shouted a group of grimy men in Tarrasa: "Less talk and more pick and shovel...
More sophisticated (and more expensive) testers smile pityingly at such questions, pointing out that no booze hound, no matter how shaky he feels when he fills out the test, is going to admit to his future boss that he takes a slug when he wakes up each morning. The sophisticated testers are more "psychological," although many of them are not psychologists. They rely on supposedly cheatproof tests, asking their subjects to complete sly sentences ("My greatest fear . . ." "What pains me . . ."), flashing Rorschach inkblots, or as in the sample above, asking the testee to draw figures. Author Gross includes...
Like Stuart Hughes, Gilfedder and Shaw are running to raise neglected issues and educate the voters. Unlike Hughes, who sporadically quotes Newsweek on miracles, Gilfedder and Shaw do not even smile about their chances for victory...