Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Generally pleased by the local landscape and skyline, Cunliffe mourns only over the new twin towers of Leverett House, finding them "incongruous as black teeth in an otherwise ideal smile...
...smile in memory of what was once a maxim of our Government: that a man who knows how to run General Motors knows by definition how to run the Department of Defense. It is, however, not self-evident that a man who knows how to run a university is thereby qualified to run the foreign policy of the U.S., and that an intellectual who knows how to lecture and write books knows also how to make foreign policy...
...Many a smile of a summer night has been changed to a frown by the congregational chanting of early-rising folk singers who have been humming and strumming on the steps of Widener Library, prior to the building's 10 p.m. closing time...
...cried Nikita, "may confront the Soviet Union with the necessity of likewise increasing its armament appropriations . . . and the strength of its armed forces." Russia, after all, had reduced its own troop levels. "We have pulled out of all our military bases abroad," he added without a trace of a smile, ignoring the huge Soviet garrisons in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, the supply planes in Laos, and the Soviet arms buildup in faraway Cuba...
...Some people say we are gamblers," complains Clint Jr., "but that isn't true. In gambling, you are betting on Lady Luck; in speculating, you have your mind to help you, and you are betting on yourself." Whatever "speculator" may mean to most Americans, no one needs to smile, podner, when he says it to a Murchison...