Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learning guitar at the age of seven from her father, who was also learning the instrument at the time. Each day he taught his daughter the chords he had learned. "He'd say 'This is a B, this is an A--isn't this great?'" Rodriguez recalls with a smile. The family moved to Southern California, but Rodriguez played only as a hobby, never performing in public...
...boyish good looks, cherubic smile and bouncy energy helped him win the Providence mayoralty in 1974 at the age of 33. By a mere 709 votes over a sorely split Democratic machine, Vincent A. Cianci Jr. became the first Republican mayor of the heavily industrial city in 34 years. But he soon had a problem that threatened to tarnish the good-guy image. A 1978 cover story in the now defunct New Times magazine reported that twelve years earlier, while a law student at Marquette University, Cianci had been accused by a 20-year-old Milwaukee telephone operator of having...
...such foreign policy issues as funding for the MX missile and Central America, Wright could not resist complaining directly to Reagan: "You can't have it both ways. We in Congress can't be expected to be supporters one day and whipping boys the next." With a smile, Reagan told Wright that he had heard his "alibi artist" dig, and added, "I think I've got a couple more cracks coming myself...
Your hot faces from Europe leave me cold. I was particularly struck by their deadpan, pouting expressions. These actresses have good reason to smile. They make enough money in one week to feed a family of four for a year...
...other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that, smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand: we are too small, and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially...