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Word: smile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than six weeks by a leg injury, displayed some emotion on the court. After he hit his first free throw with three seconds left and the score at 51-49, he wheeled around and gave Ferry a meaty high-five. After the second, he broke into a broad smile and launched himself toward a wildly cheering bench full of teammates...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Crimson Slips Past Princeton; Falls to Quakers | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

...trail leads Ed and Beth Herman-at first abrasive adversaries, then trusting amateur detectives-through the blood-streaked boulevards of Santiago and into the American embassy's labyrinth of red-white-and-blue tape. There they confront the anesthetizing smile of Nixonian bureaucracy. It is also the place where the movie begins lumbering to a halt, elaborating the obvious with political ironies that stick their thumb in the viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Politics of Melodrama | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

After him it would be Amplanger's turn, one of the 'new men': ruthlessly dynamic, jovial, robust-his smile was enough to scare a person, and perhaps they needed him quickly to kill him off spectacularly, and could therefore get himself-Tolm-quietly out of the way. Amplanger stood for stock exchange, Olympic shooting team, tennis, Zummerling, and teeth-grinding ruthlessness. Perhaps they wanted to speed up Amplanger's election-he, Tolm, radiated too many humanistic thoughts, self-doubts, too much capitalist melancholy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eavesdropping | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...dropped 2¼ points the day of the announcement and 1⅜ more the following day. Coca-Cola finished the week at 31¼, compared with 34⅜ the week before. Said the portfolio manager of one of the largest pension funds, who was without a Coke or a smile: "I think Coca-Cola's paying too much, and I'm not excited about Columbia." The offer works out to about $70 a share for the movie firm, which had been trading for about $42 a share immediately before the merger was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reel Thing | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...people free from odd compulsions. An otherwise impeccable butler, intolerable to the Warner family because of his ghastly smile, returns as a volunteer fireman to avenge himself with a carefully misdirected extinguisher on the house that rejected him. On an idyllic holiday in Wales, little Sylvia and a friend come terrifyingly close to burying another child in the sand. With chilling serenity the memoirist comments, "Children driven good are apt to be driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teacup Demons | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

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