Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes watching you. It's downright embarrassing." A high point of "lobby observing" (as it is known to the trade) comes when an unwary caller, thinking himself alone, begins to preen and scratch while waiting for the answering buzzer. One tenant regularly warns his caller over the intercom: "Smile, you're on Candid Camera...
...beauty that he said. "Welcome to the White House, Princess," then turned away before remembering that her husband was there too. He wheeled around and added: "And you too, Prince." When he met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, Powers had a problem: "I had to remind myself not to smile," he says. "That's pretty hard when you are used to smiling...
...press conference not long ago,U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was asked to comment on the crisis afflicting "our southern neighbors." "To which crisis," asked Rusk with a weary smile, "are you referring?" It was a good question. Right now three of Latin America's biggest nations, comprising 58% of its land mass and containing more than half of its people, are without effective governments...
...Paris, a city old and rich in passing fancies, all it takes to plan a literary revolt is three disappointed writers and a sidewalk cafe. Most such uprisings are dissipated after the second apéritif, leaving nothing behind but the smile on the face of the waiter. Yet literary groups-if they persist long enough to draw serious attention-are occasionally to be reckoned with. Between about 1880 and 1895, for instance, the Symbolists, led by Mallarmé, reshaped the tone and temper of poetry, both English and French. In more recent times the Existentialists, though they produced...
...Idemitsu answers that less than 7% of Japan's oil now comes from Russia, and that almost 80% of his own supply is bought from the West, chiefly from U.S. operators in Texas and the Middle East. "I have no interest in politics," says Idemitsu with a soft smile, "but I hope to promote international friendship in the oil business...