Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glittering Smile. Said one American, contemplating these subterranean revels: "You might almost think the Germans are going underground again, leaving the ruins above ground to mock their conquerors." But there are other types of underground Germans-the thousands of homeless in Düsseldorf and every Ruhr city, who live in herds in stifling air-raid bunkers. The fits to which these cave dwellers are frequently subject have been nicknamed Bunkerkholler (bunker frenzy...
...North Sea, Hamburg seems to wear the glittering smile of West Germany's new prosperity. The buildings are scrubbed; the rubble-cleared streets are thronged with businessmen bustling along on fashionable white-soled shoes (the soles are resourcefully cut from old Luftwaffe tires). But not forgotten is the event which Hamburg's people simply call "the catastrophe"-the week of concentrated Allied bombing, in the summer of 1943, which left the city with nearly as many dead as were killed in Britain by bombs and rockets during the entire war. Hamburg's great port is virtually paralyzed...
...Tolstoy described his grey-eyed, red-lipped heroine as "so brimming over with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile." And, Tolstoy added, she had "a rather fully developed figure...
...Charles G. Ross, the President's long-faced press secretary, did not smile. He did not know that the photographers had arranged the flight with one of the President's naval aides. Ross confiscated the photographers' plates and 400 feet of movie film, because nobody had his permission for the trip...
...mystic, inclined to mull over big plans while he puffs on a pipe or a 10? cigar. Then, with every detail worked out in his mind, he springs his ideas without warning. Sometimes, when crossed in an argument, he will seem to fumble for words, with a disarming, apologetic smile, a brown-eyed stare, and an Oh-gosh stammer. "That's the time to look out," says a man who has been fencing with him for years. "He's never fumbling for ideas; his mind simply outruns his tongue...