Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people's faces brought her the most fame. Bourke-White portraits of suffering slum dwellers or world statesmen showed the same deep sensitivity. Her persistence and unceasing quest for perfection once led Mahatma Gandhi to dub her "the torturer." Churchill scowled memorably for her; she coaxed a rare smile out of a stone-faced Stalin, she explained, by assuming "all kinds of crazy postures searching for a good camera angle." In World War II she became the first accredited woman war photographer. While covering Russian soldiers fighting the Nazis within 150 miles of Moscow, she bemoaned not the personal...
...Newman, I've not only never seen him smile, I've never seen that halo he wears either...
...tour to parcel out 4,200 acres of Government land for public use, Pat Nixon was ambushed in Minneapolis by a group from the American Indian Movement who yelled "Squatter" and waved placards claiming THE LAND REALLY BELONGS TO THE INDIANS. "Well," said Pat, smiling wanly, "we have a few friends here. Thank you for coming." Outside San Diego, the smile came easier when a dripping, bare-chested surfer appeared to thank the First Lady for the beachfront real estate...
...Smilie face beams out from sweatshirts, T shirts and even brassieres. It appears on watches, cigarette lighters, necklaces, on gold cuff links that sell for $80 at New York City's Bergdorf Goodman, and on auto bumpers-sometimes above SMILE, GOD LOVES YOU stickers. The Smilie was the theme of a Look magazine promotion campaign early this year, and was used as a temporary trademark by Good Humor, Bohack supermarkets and Presidential Candidate George McGovern...
...recalls, "and I think it was cuter." WMCA handed out thousands of Good Guy sweatshirts during the 1964-66 period and a few still can be seen around the city today. One of them may have inspired the artists of the N.G. Slater Corp., which caused the smile epidemic when it began producing Smilie buttons two years ago. After a slow start, the design suddenly took off this year, and several million buttons have already been sold. "People are looking for an excuse to smile," explains Marketing Director Robert Slater, "and anyone can wear it. Smilie's not right...