Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sterile socialist doctrines that once threatened to emasculate the free economy that is Britain's best hope for the future. In an electorate whose workers have become middleclass, said Macmillan in a TV victory speech last week, "the class war is obsolete." Then, with that faintly superior smile, he added: "Nowadays it is ungrammatical but true to say that 'us' are 'they' and 'they...
...changed into a tape recorder, all that came out was a high pitched garble suggesting a recording being played backwards on the wrong speed. The cleaning woman, who possessed great presence of mind, reached over and patted Vag consolingly, hunted around among his several tapes and--with a smile of satisfaction--placed one on the machine...
Thomas: Eh? [He forces a smile and listens to Buranelli's praise.] You've had too many drinks...
Then Sapphire's brother (Earl Cameron), a physician from Warwickshire, steps into the detective's office wearing the resigned half-smile of the perennial underdog. His skin is as dark as Sapphire's was fair. "Our mother was black; our father was white," he explains. "You never know how it's going...
...small problem on the modern American scene. But articulate observers have seldom been more than articulate, and idealists and social reformers meet complete indifference far more often than opposition. The janitor is no exception. His protests are voiced again and again to various passers-by, and met with a smile, a smirk, a subdued laugh...