Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...succeeded in convincing the Encyclopedia Britannica to donate 75 sets for African schools, (worth more than $25,000), he happened to run into a representative from another company. "I figured the Lord wanted me to tell him what Encyclopedia Britannica had done," Robinson said with a broad smile. Sure enough, the second company donated 100 sets...
Only the Finns, who have learned to smile in the face of the Russian bear, kept calm. For 17 years Finland has managed the most spectacular balancing act in Europe. Perched on Russia's doorstep, Finland has had to permit Soviet meddling in its internal affairs to the point of allowing the ouster of anti-Communist Cabinet ministers; nevertheless, the country has remained strongly independent and has prospered economically while maintaining a vigorous democracy...
Turkish President Cemal Gursel beamed with pride as he roared away from Ankara's new Parliament building in the first auto ever made in Turkey, a four-cylinder, 60-h.p. job, with a chauffeur at the wheel. A scant 100 yards later, General Gursel's smile froze as the auto coughed and died. "We made this car with the Western part of our minds," he berated the chauffeur, "but with the Oriental part we forgot to put gasoline in it." So saying, General Gursel stepped into a fully gassed Detroit job, purred...
Despite the tensions of the meeting, Council members seemed generally pleased with the new constitution. Wearing an especially broad smile was William E. Bailey '62, Dunster House Committee Chairman, whose action in taking Dunster out of the old Council last spring caused the crisis that led to reorganization...
...says. "But if you tell me a wall with its spots is a painting, I say you're wrong." Nor does he think much of action painting: "It's action, not painting." His own work is part fairy tale, part ghost story. It can provoke a smile, but its real achievement is that it can also be so disturbing-like a high-frequency sound one can feel but cannot hear. At one moment, the viewer feels he is in a familiar room surrounded by familiar things. The next moment he realizes that he does not recognize anything...