Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limited sense, but again in a futile one. The mother returns to find her daughter in the ninth month, kicks the young friend out, and then flies off herself. Alone once more, Jo is stricken by labor pains. When she survives the first wave and manages a funny little smile, almost a smile of awakening, she is forging a beautiful and strong expression of her hope...
...Redmond's answers were polite, professional. His lawyer was not satisfied. Said he: "Isn't it a fact, Dr. Redmond, that you told me you'd be hanged and quartered before you would hand over the names of those little girls?", Answered Redmond with a smile: "Yes, I suppose...
...about to embark regretfully on a dubious, consensusless future, Father Murray has a further word. "It just happens," he says in effect, "that I have here a device which any reasonably intelligent person may apply to lead him to the consensus, the public philosophy." And with an urbane, engaging smile, out of his long black clericals he pops it: natural...
With Zik & Co. sowing the seeds of rebellion in the South, the days of British rule in Nigeria were clearly numbered. But at conference after conference, the bemused British could only sit apart and smile as the Africans themselves delayed independence by interregional quibbling. Not until 1951 did the shape of the ultimate solution begin to appear: in return for accepting a federal legislature with real power, the North would get as many seats as the East and West combined...
...that Welbeck must go-and fast. At the Ghana embassy, Alexander found that the terrified Welbeck had spent the night cowering between two beds, keeping up his courage with periodic nips at a bottle of brandy. Escorted by Alexander, Welbeck emerged from the bullet-scarred residence with a weak smile and a face-saving lie: "I am moving only because my government has asked me to go." Aware that any delay might get Welbeck lynched, the British general grabbed him firmly by the arm and snapped: "You come right along now. The plane's waiting...