Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sporting a smile that curls somewhere between warmth and omnipotence, the boy with the face that has plastered Harvard Square for two weeks came to Boston Saturday to make his pitch...
...vast communications network and automated logistics system for the armed forces is under study. "It sounds as though your ambition is for Iran to become the strongest country in the area," a U.S. newsman told the Shah in Washington. "It is not an ambition," the ruler replied with a smile. "It is inevitable...
Merton's sensitive social conscience made it difficult for him to confront the immense poverty he saw. Shortly after he arrived in Calcutta, a small beggar girl appeared at his taxi window before he could buy any Indian money. Merton was helpless. He recalled "the utterly lovely smile with which she stretched out her hand, and then the extinguishing of the light when she drew it back empty. She fell away from the taxi window as if she were sinking in water and drowning. I wanted...
...July. Now he could afford a new small foreign car which had its own elegance on that sunny summer afternoon parked under a tree by the marshes and he, with his blond mustache and clear eyes, and his girlfriend, with her blond hair and shy, nice smile; both of them looked like they had driven out of the movies. And I envied them a little, because everything seemed perfect. He said they were going to go camping the next weekend, and the coming month would probably be the last bit of ease he would have for a while, before...
Wholly unsatisfied, Republican Senator Howard Baker bore in with emotion. "Would you tell me, Mr. Mitchell, what is your perception of the institution of the presidency?" Replied Mitchell with a smile: "Is that part of the purpose of this committee, to ascertain from me the perception of the presidency?" Insisting that this was highly relevant, Baker asked: "Is the presidency so shrouded in mystique, is there such an aura of magnificence about the presidency, is there such an awe some responsibility . . . that the presidency in some in stances must be spared the detail, must be spared the difficulty of situations...