Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have stunned many a man of far fewer years than his 59, and he seemed impervious to the driving rains that fell on his motorcades in Boston and Manhattan. The actor (John Paul toured Poland with a school theatrical company before entering the priesthood) displayed a sure command of smile, gesture and wink, even capitalizing on his thick Polish accent to draw a laughing cheer by voicing admiration for Manhattan's "sky-scroppers." Then he milked the line a bit, as the laughter and applause rose, and pronounced the word in Polish and Italian. The humanitarian pastor delighted...
Section 80 never changes much. This year, like last year and the one before, the kid with the ankle weights showed up. He can palm the ball now, and his goofy smile is a little more abashed; but he still wears the ratty junior high basketball jacket. The old guy, who once reffed college ball and now depends on the bottle in his paper bag, was there too--and the brothers from Roslindale who help run the union during...
Larry Bird, a farmer's son from French Lick, Ind., doesn't even crack a smile. He just scores the first hoop of the year for the Celtics, and follows it up seconds later with a full-court lob that catches M.L. Carr with two strides to go to the hoop. Fans go wild, Bird makes a few more spectacular passes, and then he sits down. He isn't the standout, not until the next night in Cleveland when he sinks 12 of 17 shots and scores 28 points. But nobody is disappointed Friday --at least not in Section...
...games though, the team is less demonstrative. Hoover says they smile and clap, but don't usually say anything to the cheerleaders. Coutu suspects it is because "they are all wrapped up in the game." But their oblivion doesn't distress her. She knows that the team is inwardly grateful. "the general reaction is like, 'wow, they really care about...
...sport, like football. "We aren't just jumping up and down; your feet have to be pointing exactly one way, your hands have to be in a special position." If it looks childishly simple, Butler says, that is just "part of our job; to make it look easy. And smile...