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Word: smile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seconds left, a pass play to Kris Haines would have scored the winning touchdown, except Haines slipped. Kris remembers: "We went back into the huddle with two seconds to go, and Joe said, 'Don't worry, you can do it.' He gave me that little half-smile of his and called the exact same play again, right on the money for the touchdown." The final score was 35-34. Joe was ready for the pros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Montana: Perfect Timing, Joe: | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...could think of. But when I sat down at the typewriter, I just didn't have the heart. I looked down at the book jacket and saw that doughty, frumpy Mr. Rooney, surrounded by that cluttered old office of his, looking back up at me with a quizzical half-smile that seemed to say "Hello, friend, let's talk about paper clips. And what about pencil erasers? Mine always rip the paper. Do yours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...But Not Few Enough | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

...mean to a guy like that, a guy who makes your grandmother smile? It's all a gimmick, of course, the absent-minded-professor-type-who's-messy-and-never-on-time thing. But there's nothing so bad about that. Just about everyone on television has some kind of gimmick, so why not Rooney? And even if his weekly spots aren't always stimulating and funny, they do provide a somewhat refreshing change of pace to the aggressively serious tone which dominates the rest of "60 Minutes." Andy Rooney is the sprig of parsley, the after dinner mint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...But Not Few Enough | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

...plays a so-called "reverse-action" offense, which features a lot of motion through the lane and is similar to the strategies employed by Columbia and Cornell. "Only the other teams do it better," said McLaughlin with a smile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cagers Dump Engineers; Subs Strut Their Stuff | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

...tent now-the "Khao I Dang National Theater"-milling and chattering with expectation. Then the bright pink curtains part, showing a backdrop painting of Angkor Wat. The xylophone plays the water-drop music. The dancers enter. The boys strut, the girls cock their hands and heads and do not smile. They glow with color, their dark brown skins set off by the deep blues, reds and greens of their sarongs and sashes. They do four dances, starting with a hunting dance in which a small boy brandishes a spear and tries to look ferocious. The coconut dance is the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Embracing the Executioner | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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