Word: smiled
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...amino acids and proteins, complex molecules that are the building blocks of life itself. Thus, Weliachew has provided significant support for the belief of a growing number of scientists that the same chemical processes that likely produced life on earth are occurring throughout the universe. "I don't smile at the thought of finding intelligent life in the universe," says Weliachew. "It is a serious matter...
...Jerusalem this week, a veteran Israeli diplomat named Tuvia Arazi will go on pension and the Political-Economic Planning Division that he directed will be shut down. "We're superfluous," says Arazi, 58, a onetime underground fighter and Ambassador to Cyprus. But he says it with a smile. The Political-Economic Planning Division is actually Israel's antiboycott office, set up eleven years ago to thwart the efforts of 18 Arab countries to choke Israel economically. "The boycott does us infinitesimal harm now," says Arazi. "It is so inefficient and ineffective that we simply don't need...
...soon moved him to drums, then to alto sax, bugle and cornet. After a year, Armstrong, 14, got out and organized his own little band, playing lead cornet. Mainly he worked the district. "One thing I always admired about those bad men in New Orleans," he recalled with a smile, "is that they all liked good music...
...polite reaction to this news would be to smile at human folly and hope that M. Sabet's Persian cat sharpens its claws on something else. On the other hand, the episode was more redolent of Louis XVI's time than the mere style of the table would suggest. Sabet's excursion into le goût royal cost the equivalent of the collective income of 1,260 of his fellow Iranians, who earn an average $330 or so a year; and with it the creak of imaginary tumbrils with real collectors in them grows a little...
...McQueen's style of glacial cool has been perfected close to the point of impenetrable mannerism. Playing a racing driver in Le Mans, he only stands in front of the camera and allows himself to be photographed. Occasionally his lips will twitch into that shy, strong, ironic half-smile that he has made his trademark. In really grandiose scenes he may make a gesture. He might even wave. But only under pressure...