Word: smiledness
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When he spoke of the rules at Liberty, he seemed almost unaware of their anachronistic rigidity: the restriction on freshman and sophomore dating, the ban on alcohol and tobacco, the outlawing of unauthorized demonstrations, the taboo against rock music, even country and western. "The students know I love country and...
She walked in quietly and a shoe caught her motherly attention. It was sitting on my bureau in my room, but it wasn't mine. The shoe was black and had at least a six-inch heel. Not knowing that it belonged to one of my roommate's girlfriends, my...
Again and again each day, the juxtapositions of culture and language are jarring, like some mad laboratory experiment in continental drift. In the real world, 9,700 miles separate Shanghai from Bogota. In Jackson Heights on Roosevelt Avenue, they butt right up against each other, as when, one recent afternoon...
The tall, ruddy-cheeked West German and the pale, intense Frenchman stood outside the monastery church at Birnau, overlooking Lake Constance, near the West German-Swiss border. A Cistercian monk uttered words of welcome. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl lifted his arms to the skies, clear after a daylong rain...
Each exertion, I soon discovered, each surge of blood through my veins, triggered a fresh torment to my nose. Every time I gave myself the pleasure, a thump of pain brought me back... I smiled painfully. "Feels great," My nose not a nose, but a raw pulsing nerve.