Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nobody dast blame this man. You don't understand: Willy was a salesman . . . ((A salesman)) don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake...
...President seemed bizarrely disengaged or possibly merely conflicted and resentful. The world was telling him that he must change. Reagan had gone very, very far in the world on a smile and a shoeshine and on his almost majestic stubbornness. "I've believed this too long to change my mind now," he would tell aides who were trying to turn his views on some program that conflicted with his tenets. His persistence was always one of his virtues, part of his political genius: Americans thought he believed deeply in a few simple principles, including low taxes and high defense budgets...
...Luke's music used to make me smile...
...that the anthropology concentrator is faced with the end of her college career, she looks forward to returning home to New York with a smile and an "I miss it." September will no longer bring two weeks of double sessions, but rather, a job in banking, business, or management...
...heard intoning the title tune. At the curtain, after a pleasure cruise through the likes of You're the Top, Friendship and It's Delovely (the latter two lifted from other Porter shows), a giant lighted-up portrait of the composer-lyricist, who died in 1964, descends to smile benevolently...