Word: smiledness
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Returning to the box, the judge asked her if she felt satisfied at having looked at every single face in the courtroom. "Even the ones behind you?" he asked, referring to the "Public Officers" bench. She didn't look, and a few faces there smiled. She replied no. The judge...
When Brick's three sons, Mike, Lester and Arnold, came back from World War II, the family moved to Albia, some 65 miles southeast of Des Moines, and set up a factory in an old barn. Five railroads then intersected in town, making it a likely place for manufacturing...
They drove down to the beach where a bonfire sent shadows gliding across the sand. I don't like shadows, said Rick. Sammy said nothing. Somebody called out from the bonfire. Sammy couldn't hear so he moved closer. Want some wine? came the voice again. They moved down closer...
Sammy peered at the odometer. Ten thousand, he told Rick. Rick looked back and smiled. The Dodge coughed. Rick turned on the radio and they slid home.
Outside, in the street below, traffic zoomed past. It could have been any street, except that all the cars were Fiats, with an occasional Volvo or BMW, and they drove at breakneck speed, the drivers shouting and hurling insults through the honking of horns. Turning back toward my new acquaintances...