Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms under which Britain joined the Community 18 months ago. If satisfactory adjustments were not made, he warned, the Labor government would call a national referendum, recommending withdrawal from the EEC. Last week "Sunny Jim" Callaghan showed up at a meeting of EEC foreign ministers in Luxembourg with a smile instead of a shillelagh. In a rather more conciliatory speech than his colleagues had expected, he announced that Britain's Labor government was "ready to play our full part in constructing a new Europe." Nonetheless, Callaghan told the EEC, "It is in the interest of every country to find...
Soon afterwards, St. Clair wearily shuffled in--short, dumpy, exhausted. When St. Clair smiles, he looks sly and devious--it is a homely smile (there is a large gap between his front teeth), a mocking smile, and he looks remarkably like the "Silver Fox" for which he is nicknamed. But St. Clair was not smiling as he entered. He deposited a briefcase in his private office, then dropped himself deep into a chair at a small conference table and gave a long, loud sigh. He looked more like a wounded bear...
...knocked Fulbright out of the Senate is a handsome, affable six-footer with a smile that makes voters grin back. Son of a Charleston merchant, Bumpers was always ambitious, but until 1970 he had achieved, besides a country law practice, only a seat on the local school board and the post of town attorney. The latter job came easily; he was Charleston's only lawyer...
...little money that he had to sell his dairy herd for $95,000 to pay campaign and family expenses. Then it was the turn of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, the Republican incumbent. In the November election, Rockefeller called Bumpers "a vaguely pleasant fellow with one speech, a shoeshine and a smile." The pleasant fellow attacked Rockefeller for his frequent absences from the state and won going away...
...have the girl's acne checked. Jackson pays the bill for the examination and any follow-up care. "When you leave your friends," he says, "they should feel better-whether you gave them a dime or a dollar, ten minutes of your time, looked at them with a smile or just told them they looked great." In carrying out his philosophy of wealth ("If you've got money, spread it around"), Jackson finances a home for delinquent boys in Tempe, Ariz., where he lives in the offseason. He plans to open a ranch for the same purpose near...