Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before I knew the man, I imagined Hodding Carter alone, hunched over a recalcitrant typewriter in a musty, night-time newsroom, surrounded by Ku Klux Klansmen. In my reverie, he brushed aside like flies the bullets that flew through the paneless windows and fanned his ears. A thin smile formed around his non-filter cigarette as he banged out on his balky machine the fire-breathing tag to the next day's scathing editorial. Hodding Carter, 30-year-old crusading editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, knee-deep in the mire called Mississippi, clawing at the Magnolia Curtain...
...pedigreed Greenville was at that party, and Hodding Carter, by anyone's estimation, was best in the show. Dressed in the dark suit, conservative tie, button-down shirt, and easy smile that every gentile Southern male puts on before breakfast and takes off in bed, Carter floated about, a bit taller than the others, laughing louder, slapping harder, and drinking faster. He could have pinched any skirt in the place (and did pinch a few). He danced tricky dance steps. He harmonized with the calypso band. Never looking, he plucked a bourbon-on-the-rocks from a silver tray...
...Indian officer. But we didn't get to see them: as we approached, all the Chinese had fallen into prone positions behind the rocks, disappearing against the green grass and mottled moss. "You never can tell what the Chinkos will do," said the senior Indian officer with a smile. "But our boys come up to have a good look at them now and then just to show there's no ill feeling...
...bonus-baby Quarterback Joe Namath, 22, unfresh from what he hoped would be his one and only appearance for the U.S. Army. Waiting the word on whether his gimpy right leg had passed an Army draft physical, Joe clowned with his shades and the poodle. Barbra smiled her bonus-baby smile...
With Asia in flames and the U.N. in shambles, cynics may grimly smile at the notion that "international law" exists-let alone that it can produce international peace. Yet last week, 3,000 jurists met in Washington for the second world conference aimed at turning that dream into reality. With 1,000 delegates from 110 countries, it was the biggest gathering of international jurists in the history of the world...