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Word: smiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning recently, a large man with a friendly smile brought his beige Mercury coupe to a stop at the front entrance of the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Ga. He jumped out, locked the car and gave the keys to a guard. Then he signed his name in the visitors' book (under "purpose of visit." he wrote "educational") and rushed down a prison corridor to a classroom in which some 35 inmates were waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...smile, or at least you stretch your mouth and put it up at the corners, and then you [here he makes a little spitting noise that sounds like "thhsp!"] flick a hair off with the end of your tongue, a tiny hair, and that's all there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young Man with a Horn | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...tell the baron such stupendous tales without ever laughing?" Even Alberto found it a little hard to explain. "He just believed everything," said he. "Even had an asbestos vest made to protect himself from the radiations." The defendants grinned sheepishly and the judge was hardly able to hide a smile himself, as he sentenced Alberto and "Colonel Berthier" to four years in prison, and gave 18 months to "The Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bamboozling the Baron | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...bright cheery smile on our faces...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Nathan M. Pusey: Culture Moves East | 6/11/1953 | See Source »

...tall, tanned man with chestnut colored hair and a friendly but not flashly smile, Pusey speaks earnestly and fluently. Another friend has said, however, "There's going to be an uproar when he gives his first speech at Harvard. His speeches always rend well, but Pusey doesn't. His voice is flat and a little monotonous, but he does get his ideas across--and he has the ideas in the first place...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Nathan M. Pusey: Culture Moves East | 6/11/1953 | See Source »

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