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Word: smiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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They all fit together competently, and they all smile well...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Jamaica | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

...loot. That's for the loot." His smile reminded us of the coal miners' song, "Keep Your Hand Upon the Dollar, and Your Eye Upon the Scale...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: The People, Yes | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

...rest of the answers are more personal: one is what TV hucksters call sex appeal. Murrow is tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and compact (175 lbs.). His saturnine good looks and taut doomsday voice project virile authority. Person to Person, which also displays his urbane charm and ready smile, attracts far more women than men viewers, according to Trendex surveys, and in deference to this finding Person to Person technicians (so far unknown to Murrow) are now under orders to adjust camera angles and lighting to compensate for the latest recession in his hairline and to make the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Is Murrow | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...objective" interpretation. After Bill Paley added him to the CBS board of directors in 1949-a post he held until 1955-Murrow eyed TV even more distrustfully as a platform for a newsman's personal opinion. He asked in a memo: "Is it not possible that . . . an infectious smile, eyes that seem remarkable for the depths of their sincerity, a cultivated air of authority, may attract huge television audiences regardless of the violence that may be done to truth or objectivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Is Murrow | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Peter Pan Peanut Butter interrupted a fetching cartoon depiction of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which Disney dragged out of his attic of past hits for a commercial on its crunchy product. Even Alice in Wonderland got helplessly involved in the selling melee: "Was it the smile on my Cheshire cat," asks Alice, "or the smile on my Jello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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