Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet purchases will boost 1972-1975 grain exports by 17% above their average for the past three years ($1.5 billion), which should bring many an expectant smile to grain-belt farmers. Moreover, since the U.S. did not agree to buy anything from the Russians in return, the deal will wipe off $250 million of the nation's horrendous balance-of-payments deficits during each of the next three years. Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson will try to build on the momentum later this month, when he is scheduled to visit Moscow to discuss other trade matters. He will likely...
...fact there are no real dangers of any kind in Buechner's gentle world. Death, pain and anxiety exist, but are seen small; the hideous, wasting illness that kills Antonio's twin sister at the beginning of Lion Country is worth little more than a sad smile...
...town council of Hebron on the occupied West Bank. Turning to the mayor, Sheik Mohammed Ali Ja'abari, Dayan suggested that the council ought to begin making development plans for the next ten or 15 years. As the assembled Arab notables gasped, Dayan added with a tight smile: "I suggest that you free yourselves from any illusions you may have regarding the future...
...longer have grease in their hair-if they have hair at all. Elvis, however, still sounds and looks almost like 1957. His hair, to be sure, is a little less shiny, and the famous Presley pout, an expression of his nearly platonic narcissism, has been replaced by the genial smile of acceptance and affluence. After 32 movies and untold millions in box-office receipts and record sales, Elvis at 37 is in many ways bigger than ever...
...What is new about the Jesus Jews, besides their numbers, is the degree of their evangelistic.fervor. In an attempt to echo that fervor, the long-established American Board of Missions to the Jews has run full-page newspaper ads crowing about the number of Jews "wearing 'that smile' nowadays!" Last week New York Rabbi William Berkowitz took his own ad headed "Wipe That Smile Off," saying that there is such vast spiritual poverty among both Jews and Christians that each group should concentrate on missions to its own people...