Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view from the gift shop was upbeat as could be. In addition to the aforementioned paperweight/pencil holder, they had big fat pens with the U. N. insignia on it, and little dolls from various nations, that all smile at each other. What I didn't realize was that it was 1972, and the U. N. had spent almost a decade waffling on Vietnam. Soviet Jewry, and most of the other major calamities then facing the world. But it didn't matter: I had the ideals of international cooperation drilled into me well...
...salary raises, they are first roughly calculated faculty-wide, and only then subjected to case-by-case adjustment. To explain this effort to downplay individual professors' merit and achievement. Harvard deans like to smile and say. "All our professors are stars...
When Big Jim Thompson voted on Tuesday morning, a winner's smile flashed across his broad face. Only two days before, a Gallup poll showed the bluff 6-ft. 6-in. Republican Governor leading his mild-mannered opponent, Adlai Stevenson III, by 16 points. But when Thompson went to bed at 2 Wednesday morning, the corners of his smile had turned downward: he was leading by just over 1%. By midday Thursday, as votes were still being tabulated, he was wearing a full-fledged frown of dismay: with more than 3.5 million votes cast, the once confident Thompson...
...outside the Oval Office where he and his aides had fashioned a solution during 13 days of nail-biting cerebration. Kennedy thrust his hands deep into his coat pockets, a familiar tic that signaled he was back in high fettle. He ducked his head with the small self-conscious smile of the winner he always wanted to be, muttered something about not messing up the weekend entirely, and strode off to his helicopter for a few hours at his Virginia estate. That night the President talked with his brother Bobby about the crisis. As he had done so often over...
...even heard on the tongues of such European Socialist leaders as West Germany's Willy Brandt and French President François Mitterrand. "Everybody calls me Felipe. Everywhere," acknowledges Felipe González, 40, the handsome, confident leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (P.S.O.E.), flashing his famous smile...