Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence of Mboya's language, delivered with a pleased smile, reflected his own increased self-confidence and his shrewd tactical awareness that he dares not let any African leader grab a more extreme position for independence than his. To the crowd of 20,000 gathered in Nairobi's African Stadium, Mboya pledged, to the biggest cheers of the day: "We will not rest until Kenyatta is back with...
...skiers, the U.S. rested its hopes for individual gold medals on a pair of figure skaters. The confidence was well placed. In the climactic free skating, New York City's blonde Carol Heiss, 20, four-time world champion since she took a silver medal in 1956, flashed a smile that was only a trifle too tight, soared effortlessly through an intricate routine (the show stopper: two successive, whirling leaps taken from alternate skates), and easily won her gold medal to keep a promise made to her dying mother in 1956. Daughter of a baker and a junior...
...Harvard's Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender, the hold-down headache is "grim, grimmer, grimmest." But he says it with a certain smile. In the past five years, Ivy League colleges have been able to raise their admission standards 50%. Reason: brighter and brighter applicants. Last year two-thirds of Princeton's applicants were deemed perfectly capable of Princeton work. But only one-third could be admitted, and Princeton skimmed the richest cream. Says Director of Admission C. William Edwards: "The bottom one-third of the applicants of ten years ago wouldn't even bother...
...reminisces. "And we did almost nothing but clear away! Everything which even remotely smacked of mysticism and morality, of pietism and romanticism, or even of idealism, was suspected and sharply interdicted or bracketed with reservations which sounded actually prohibitive! What should really have been only a sad and friendly smile was a derisive laugh...
...captain (George Sanders) of the liner Claridon, several days at sea with 1,500 passengers aboard, is not alarmed by the news of the fire, and fortune at first seems to smile on his sangfroid. The blaze is quickly put out. But its heat has fused the safety valve of the No. 3 boiler, which eventually blows its top through third, second and first-class cabins and rips a sizable hole in the side of the ship. The captain orders the lifeboats lowered, and as bulkhead after bulkhead bursts, he makes his desperate calculations: in 50 minutes the Claridon will...