Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resembles his longtime mentor, Johnson. There are the same drawling intonation of speech, the same earthy turns of phrase. Yet his features are finer and his manner smoother than Johnson's; nobody can quite picture Connally showing off an operation scar. He can charm foes with a wry, knowing smile that flickers as brightly and briefly as summer lightning...
...novel arose from a 1913 visit to an evangelical mystic named Edward Carpenter. One of Carpenter's apostles gently touched Forster's backside, and the touch "seemed to go straight through the small of my back into my ideas." Only those who can read that without a smile will be able to appreciate Maurice. The distance between the Edwardian love that dared not speak its name and the rhetoric of the Gay Liberation Front is simply too great...
...Daley. Although Jackson, as director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket, has been one of Daley's most outspoken critics, the mayor was on hand to help open Black Expo. Awkwardly clasping Jackson's hand in a "soul handshake," Daley forced a smile for the television cameras, then toured the exhibits. His presence testified to the political and economic clout that Black Expo had been set up to evoke...
...first half of the game with an eye injury. But Manning did complete eight passes, two for touchdowns, in a 38-20 losing effort. Archie has been so spectacular that he already has defenses gunning for him. Said Rams' End Deacon Jones, with a blood-and-feathers smile: "I hope to end Manning's career the next time we meet...
...visions of America choking on its own verbal clutter. Another mixes the language of a Brooklyn barroom with the rhythmic moans of an OMchant. Other vignettes are purely visual, as when, after going through the motions of a Madison Avenue version of life, a spotlighted actress stands wearing the smile and vacant eyes of a small town politician or of an old movie actor who keeps smiling long after the emotions have been sucked...