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Word: smiled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...applicants are automatically ineligible for loans. On the other hand, he added, the standards might well be too loose, thereby encouraging people to go dangerously into debt. Wriston, who is rarely without a sense of humor, piped up wryly: "Do I have a third choice?" The visitor did not smile back. He was Ralph Nader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How It Feels to Be Naderized | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...revolution ?any more than they were flower children or acid trippers. Some call the Jesus movement a fad or just another bad trip. Is it? Is the growing fascination with Jesus a passing, adolescent infatuation? There are obvious fad aspects: Jesus shirts (JESUS is MY LORD) bumper stickers (SMILE, GOD LOVES YOU), posters, buttons (THE MESSIAH is THE MESSAGE) and, inevitably, a Jesus-People wristwatch. Some followers are affecting a Christ couture: white pants and tunics, Mexican-peasant style. There are de rigueur catch phrases: endless "Praise Gods" and "Bless Yous." There is even a "Jesus cheer"?"Give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Rebel Cry: Jesus Is Coming! | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...interviewer, a tall thin woman who looked the epitome of New England clam chowder, didn't smile. "Hello," she said. "What was your class rank? How were your boards?" My transcript was sitting right under her upwardly mobile nose, but I answered timidly...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Beautiful Soup is Hardly a Minor Concept | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...noon, she is safely out of the Common and standing on the traffic island waiting to cross into the Yard. She sees a bunch of little kids pedaling by on their bikes. She musters a weary smile. Children, she thinks, innocents, our only hope. And just then, one of the brats leans off his bicycle and pokes her in the boob...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String Walking The Streets | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

Varney also added the pro scout to the Harvard bleacher. There were always one or two trips to the water fountain each game to shake hands, smile, and joke about the game with the gentlemen in the fedoras. And at the District I playoffs, the press section was filled with stop watches and movie cameras...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Crimson Nine is Unlikely Powerhouse | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

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