Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were still some moments of pleasantry. Once Kennedy lit up a cigar and dropped the match behind Khrushchev's chair. "Are you trying to set me on fire?" the Premier joked. When Kennedy assured him that he had no such idea in mind, Khrushchev answered with a smile: "Ah-a capitalist, not an incendiary." Another time, Khrushchev and Secretary of State Dean Rusk got into a debate on dwarf corn. Khrushchev declared that it could not be grown in quantity. Rusk, who was born on a Georgia cotton farm, insisted that Khrushchev was wrong, and promised to send...
American ambassador, on his left, scarcely touched the elaborate lunch that was laid before him. Seated at his right, Jacqueline zeroed in with a flashing smile and began to speak in her low, slow French...
...Institut de Puériculture, a hospital for premature infants, she accepted a bouquet of sweet peas, admired the babies, and observed that her daughter Caroline detested flashbulbs. The president of the Paris Municipal Council presented her with a tiny wristwatch, was rewarded with a smile. Then there was a quick trip to flower-decked Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's country retreat, and a gourmet lunch (lobster thermidor, mousse aux fraises des bois, and three wines) at La Celle St. Cloud, the long-ago hideaway of Mme. de Pompadour. And capping it all was the gala evening at the Palace...
...station in a crowd of Soviet women and children. "We must get together," said Khrushchev, unabashed, as he reached out to shake Molotov's plump hand. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who had been Molotov's underling for years, blinked in the bright sun and smiled a frozen smile. "Nice weather we're having," he said...
Segal, author of the book and lyrics, is a resident tutor in Dunster House, working for a doctorate in comparative literature, and intends to take his generals in the early fall. "But now I have to do a great deal of rewriting," he complained with a smile. "The point of view must come through stronger, and the ending has to mean something...