Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead the country through the international crisis. Foreign policy is responsible for at least half of Ike's strength. Says Lodge: "The overriding issue is the organization of a durable peace. The average citizen is not for Ike because of his warm handshake or ingratiating smile. He is for him because of the cold-blooded judgment that Ike knows more about war & peace than anybody else. They believe he's the doctor that can fix what's wrong...
...first right turn, missing Old 19th by inches. Crowd breathes sigh of relief. Gamins boo, suddenly spot me. I duck behind peppermint striped door. Shapely young thing almost dressed in red asks me sweetly if I want to see Santa Claus. Gamins cheer from doorway. Little girl cries. I smile weakly...
...moonfaced youngster marched onstage in Carnegie Hall with the self-assurance of a veteran. He gave the audience a confident smile, then signaled Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos to launch the New York Philharmonic-Symphony into the Paganini Concerto No. 1. From his first bow strokes, 15-year-old Michael Rabin proved he had something to be confident about. His technique was effortless, his tone strong and clean, his style and phrasing in the brilliant manner of Heifetz and Isaac Stern...
...salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man 'way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back-that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat and you're finished...
Unable to get a hearing from the impresario, Pianist June Allyson schemes to catch his ear by crashing a children's audition as a 13-year-old, baring her dental braces in a demure smile. Johnson rises to the bait, rushes to her apartment the next morning with a fat contract guaranteeing a Manhattan debut. Posing as her own big sister, June tries to talk him into signing her up instead, but he scorns her as a selfish chiseler. At Johnson's insistence, 13-year-old June goes into training-teeth braces andall-at his country home...