Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spinola seemed to be holding the coalition together and keeping potential opponents at bay by the sheer force of his popularity. As he left the palace after his inauguration, 15,000 citizens cheered him, and his Mercedes was showered with white carnations. The frosty general broke into a rare smile and returned his supporters' V-for-victory sign. Even an obscure left-wing splinter group called Movimento Anarquista dos Homosexuais Revolucionários pledged its unswerving loyalty to the new regime. Another band of anarchists marched into a government office demanding recognition as a "democratic opposition." When an official...
...tout Paris and an instant international celebrity. The world soon learned that she drank a lot of Scotch, loved to play chemin defer and drive Jaguars in her bare feet. The characters in her subsequent books, among them such bestsellers as Aimez-Vous Brahms? and A Certain Smile, tended to be beautiful, languid, bent on self-destruction. They were often driven by pangs of ennui, whose meaning in French implies more cosmic pain than its English translation ("boredom") can possibly convey...
...would go back tomorrow if I could," he says with a wistful smile. "I never will adjust myself to living out of Africa. Every time I have left it has been a temporary sojourn." But then he laughs, and nods toward the large, base-relief map of Africa above his desk, and adds, "In some ways, I never really leave...
Kennedy had. If he liked her, that was his business-and good luck to them both. The same was the case with his mother. We knew she was a millionaire, and consequently we had to keep in mind whom we were dealing with at all times. We could smile courteously and shake hands with her, but that didn't change the fact that we were at opposite poles...
...brought a photographer to take pictures of the five independents together, holding a copy of the resolution. Danehy showed a weak smile while Vellucci joked and praised the independents for their ability to "get together for the benefit of the city...