Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...based his candidacy won him many votes after the fact. And privately, in the upstairs suite at the Copley Plaza Hotel, surrounded by staff-people, volunteers, and the usual campaign flotsam, he exhibited unusual strength. Moving from worker to worker, especially seeking out those who were weeping, he smiled, hugged and asked them to smile back. An 11:00 p.m. bulletin showed him at 4 per cent, with Ellen McCormack hot on his tail...
...Delighted. Reagan stubbornly refused to acknowledge that he had taken a drubbing in Florida, though many experts figured that he, like Willy Loman, had little left except his smile and a shoeshine. Lounging on a bed in blue slacks and a black-and-white check pajama top, Reagan watched the returns on TV at the Sheraton Hotel in Rock Island, Ill. When Ford's victory was certain, Reagan changed into a blue suit and blithely bounded into the coffee shop to tell reporters: "We're all delighted. We've challenged an incumbent who has thrown the whole...
...condemned men are all in mufti," a Lagos radio correspondent announced crisply, giving a running account of the executions on Bar Beach. "Most of them look sober. Some manage to smile at newsmen." Religious confessions, Christian and Moslem, were received by two priests and a mallam (a Moslem religious leader). While the throng looked on, the 15-man firing squad opened up. The shooting lasted ten minutes, as one by one the coup plotters slumped to the blood-soaked sand...
...shirted techies replaces the actors on stage to tear down the set. Author Philip LaZebnik stands out in the greenroom, partially because of his lanky height, partially because of the flock of people who rush to shake his hand. But each actor is surrounded by his own crowd; they smile in a daze, drained and wet. Some of them are on the verge of tears, others just eat popcorn, saying the "empty feeling" won't hit them until the sober Sunday morning after...
...year, and I'm going to go there again next year," Hershey-Webb said. "This year I'm taking a sabbatical at a Boston public high school so I won't be a private schoolie like her." He pointed to the girl sitting next to him. She did not smile or seem insulted, but acknowledged that she went to Commonwealth and said that her name was Deborah Alkema. Like Hershey-Webb, she had long blond hair and wore jeans but unlike him she sported no Udall button...