Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...start down late in the afternoon to buy beer (hard liquor isn't sold in north Georgia after sundown because of the region's astronomical murder rates) and then stop to eat supper at the Brazier Burger. After eating Skeeter gulps down several cans of beer and begins to smile, "Gotta get loose, so I can daince ever' daince," he says...
Haggard's Mama's Hungry Eyes and Okie from Muskogee locate themselves in the center of this ethic, songs he sings without a breath of irony or wavering self-consciousness. His bearing, mannerisms, even Haggard's cocky smile reflect the poor southern white's defiant pride. Constantly faced with social and historical pressures that threaten his social position, the country music has been able to confer on its audience a heroic dimension missing in their lives and politics...
After boasting about their newborn's first smile, many proud parents are deflated by the pediatrician's cool remark: "It's only gas." Not so, says Psychiatrist Robert N. Emde of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Having studied more than 300 beaming babies in the past nine years, Dr. Emde reports that infants have two quite different kinds of smiles, neither of which has anything to do with...
According to Emde, a normal baby does not begin to smile in response to external stimuli-even a father's funniest faces-until the age of at least three weeks. Inward-growth grins still occur at 2½ months. But then comes a shift; if the child is awake and not crying, he tends to smile at comforting sights, sounds and touches. Soon his grins are triggered almost entirely by outside things, especially familiar faces. Secrecy is replaced by sociability-and parents finally get back smile for smile...