Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill totaled 180 more than the cash in her purse asked the check-out clerk to remove a can of cat food from her order. The clerk offered to pay for it because "I wouldn't want your cat to go hungry." The woman replied, with a weak smile: "I'm the cat." Her plight is shared by many of the elderly who live on fixed incomes. Says Robert Forest, editor of the Senior Citizens Sentinel: "Food prices are murdering the aged. The only two places they can cut costs are food and medicine - and the less food...
...back to the employment office. As she goes up to the counter. I say "good luck." She smiles back at me with a smile that can only be described as condescending. After signing in, she rejoins me to wait for her turn...
Cost overruns are so familiar by now that they hardly raise eyebrows any more. Indeed, Mark Twain once described a congressional appropriation as nothing more than a nest egg to attract further appropriations. But even the most hardened observers of military-accounting practices could not resist a smile when the General Accounting Of ice revealed last week that the Pentagon, while proudly remaining within its handsome public-relations budget of $28 million a year, has actually been spending millions more on such p.r. projects as formation-flying teams, marching bands, military museums and base tours. It estimated the excess spending...
...audience by interrupting him with comments of their own. The purpose is to suggest that Harris and his listeners are all adults together, and that he is no parent proclaiming infallible truths to obedient children. Occasionally, he writes out advice on a prescription pad: "I want you, John, to smile and greet ten new people every...
...Grin. Blasingame also had to familiarize himself with the idio syncrasies of the Japanese game. It was most difficult for him to understand why fielders smile broadly after mak ing errors. "At first," he says, "I was appalled. No more - that's their way of concealing embarrassment." Says Nomura: "Breiza is so patient that he is almost Japanese...