Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly begun the commendation when one of the seven-month-old Chambers twins grabbed at the script, rattled it vigorously until restrained by a firm presidential hand. Then the other twin reached up for the President's pocket handkerchief. But despite the interruptions, ex-Artilleryman Truman held his smile until after the ceremony was over and the picture-taking began. He read his lines seriously; the U.S. gives no Medals of Honor lightly...
...Criminal Mind. In Newark, N.J., burglars pried open a safe, took $500 in cash and stamps, left a wall motto hanging from the broken safe door: "SMILE...
...longtime friend as she sat gently stroking the parchment skin on his still defiantly bearded white head, "I want to sleep, to sleep." These quiet words were among the last that voluble Bernard Shaw was heard to speak. When the end came, Shaw met it with a faint quizzical smile that might have been construed as satisfied...
Most serious charge against Seagrave was that a rebel leader named Naw Seng had used his hospital compound, in the hill country near the Burma-China border, as a military headquarters during a brief rebel occupation of the town. Lesser charges included failure to smile at or shake hands with government officials and army men. "Never," said Defense Attorney Beechenor of the prosecution's case, "have I heard so much made of so little." At bottom it seemed that the Rangoon regime, which mortally hates and fears the Karens and other hill-country minorities, could not brook Seagrave...
...apologized for receiving us in a reclining position, explaining that he was still weak from his recent fast ... I asked Gandhi if he would accept the American ballpoint pen I had in my vest pocket." When secretaries scrambled for the trinket, "turning to me [Gandhi] said with a wan smile, 'You see how I am surrounded by selfish sinners...