Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE has been a liberation of sorts in Washington. The White House cops smile and sometimes even give a "Good morning." Calls to obscure aides, which used to disappear into nothingness, are sometimes returned. You can get a White House staff member to admit that President Nixon may have made a mistake...
OUTWARDLY, Lady Bird is as composed and gracious as she was in the White House, greeting callers with the same wide smile and vibrant enthusiasm that she displayed when Lyndon was alive. That part is not difficult, she explains, because "grief carries its own anesthesia. It gets you over...
...people on the move," was celebrating his first Mass for the Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus in Madison Square Garden. "How blessed you are," Cooke said to the assembled animal trainers, jugglers, clowns and workmen, "to spend your lives dedicated to a profession that makes people smile...
...antebellum legislative chamber, the restless crowd quieted to a tense hush. At the main entrance, George Wallace appeared in his wheelchair, his wife Cornelia walking with him. When he reached the podium, Wallace lifted himself up with no visible effort. His chin thrust forward, flashing a small, almost contemptuous smile, he showed that he could stand without leaning on his hands by raising his arms-ostensibly to shoot his cuffs. The audience exploded in a shouting, whistling, foot-stomping salute. A few country politicians wept...
...adolescent energy. They nearly do not get together. Miss Fisher, despairing of herself and of some mysterious, occasionally violent speech impediment, attempts suicide, but is revived by the eager Walter, who finds himself bleating all manner of hortatory clichés:"We're free!"; "We have to smile in the rain!"; "We're coming alive!" Soon they whistle and wheeze together...