Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attention. They are not strangely shaped or beautifully colored. They are just dull dark rocks which reveal secrets only to the experts. Indeed, there is little assurance that the rocks in the glass case actually came from the moon. Next time you trip over a dark piece of rock, smile knowingly...
When Muskie lets his length slump at last, folds his hands, gives off that long-jawed smile, then there is some of that real Maine stuff that sweeps away doubts and makes everybody trust him. "People lack confidence and trust in each other and in their Government," he says. "They are looking for a man who knows who he is. Yes, yes, we can deal with our problems, but there has to be action." A question rises, floats there for a second. Is Muskie out there leading or is he being swept along by forces beyond him? But then...
...smile is there, but one wonders how deep. He is polite, but there is a thin, cool curtain between him and his audiences. Flashes of boredom occasionally pierce his sentences, which often lag behind his thoughts, and sometimes there are no verbs or objects. It keeps nagging that he is in something that he may not want, but as long as he is there he will get on top of it, maybe even manage it. The sense that he can listen to and understand another man's ways, a large measure of John Kennedy's charm, still eludes...
...that Connally brought to Washington as Secretary of the Treasury, Alabama's Congressman George Andrews breathed a sigh of déjà vu: "You look very much like an arm twister. In fact, somebody said you look almost like his twin brother." Says Connally with an innocent smile: "I'm just an old country boy. I learned a long time ago, I'm not smart enough to be devious...
...Nixon's personal qualities that bring from Osborne uncompromising language: "The viewed Nixon-the sullen mouth twitching on order into that spurious smile, the quality of cold and unceasing calculation to be seen in his little eyes-aroused in me a sense of ingrained and ineradicable cheapness...