Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charm . . . The brown eyes that were ever ready to sparkle at some witty sally often hold an expression now of hard defiance or weary frustration. His face is that of a tired man who seems to be driven by some internal force which never relents, never lets go. His smile today is the smile of a self-possessed man, a polite Prime Minister, fully aware of his power, defying any criticism...
...Buenos Aires one day last week to honor "Argentina's No. 1 Motorcyclist," the parade was led by none other than the No. 1 motorcyclist himself. At the Casa Rosada (Pink House, Argentina's White House), President Juan Perón, decked out in a broad smile and a jockey cap, dismounted from his Italian-made Gilera to take the riders' salutes...
...Deerslayer as an Illinois farmboy, Nevins has taken the five Leatherstocking tales-The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie-shorn away the interminable love passages and faded humor, deftly stitched the rest together to fit into one handsome volume. Modern readers may smile at some of Cooper's dialogue, written in the days before Mark Twain cleared the air ("Manifest no distrust," says their escort to two beautiful girls wandering through Indian-infested forests, "or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend"). Cooper still stands out as master of action...
...went out the door, Margaret halted. "Merry Christmas to the both of you." And with a faint smile, Vag began to write a check...
...loose the commuters' attraction to the house system would take a lever the Administration apparently lacks. A dean cannot smile at the commuters and tell them the houses aren't really very much, while advertising to the rest of the country that the house system is "one of Harvard's finest features." The policy in the past few years, then, has been to give Dudley a series of improvements in an attempt to satisfy the most outrageous inequalities. The commuters, however, have responded by shifting out of the Center at the pace of nearly a hundred men a year. "Before...