Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thin Smile. The critical scrutiny that Mrs. Thatcher can expect to receive from her own party will hardly compare to the dressing-down Labor will try to inflict upon her as leader of the opposition. Perhaps exhausted by the tension of the past two weeks, she seemed unprepared to deal with Prime Minister Harold Wilson's irrepressible gamesmanship in their first parliamentary encounter. Admitting a "deep gulf between her and me in political philosophy," Wilson said that he nevertheless "looked forward to the informality and, if I may say so, the intimacy of our meetings behind [the House Speaker...
...going to react to an occasional visitor from Harvard. You meet the guy, try to find something to talk about, administer a battery of standardized reading tests. At 9 p.m. you finish. You say good-bye to the guy you've tutored and don't know whether to smile, look sad, or even look at him. Then you ride back to Harvard. But after only a couple of weeks, you realize that although the inmates might have reason to resent you they do not. Unable to read in a society which leaves the individual largely on his own, these inmates...
...bedroom. Loretta's steadfast affection for Dillon is meant to be win some, cockeyed and noble all at once. But in this benighted melodrama, com passion and indulgence are the same, and women are the stronger vessel be cause they take their punishment with a tear and a smile...
...brick office of the Michigan Employment Security Commission on Conner Avenue when Labor Secretary Peter Brennan stopped by for a recent visit. To his consternation, he was greeted with a storm of catcalls. "You promised us jobs," one man shouted. "You shouldn't come around here and smile at us. We're mad!" Added a furloughed Chrysler employee: "They ought...
...give him a simian look. You can usually tell how the defense is faring from the mood on William Homans's face. On a disappointing day he is irascible and his forehead is wrinkled. On a good day his eyes light up, and the lines outside his nose become smile lines...