Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caucus room, David Daniel Beck had his three-diamond ring turned into the palm of his left hand ("I always wear it that way because the light flashes in my eyes"). In his lightweight, grey, tailor-made suit,* his double teardrop (one white, one red) cravat and his toothiest smile, Teamster Boss Beck was the picture of resplendent confidence. "Are you nervous?" asked a reporter. "Nervous?" barked Beck...
...mild Washington night, the chunky man stood in the shadows outside the Dupont Plaza Hotel and reached fast for the onionskin paper held out by his taller, slimmer companion. The little man tucked the paper in his inside coat pocket, shook hands and turned back to the hotel. Smiling to himself, he padded across the thick rug in the lobby and started into an elevator. Then the smile vanished-and squat (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) James Riddle Hoffa, 44, one of the most powerful leaders of U.S. labor, stood frozen-faced while agents of the Federal Bureau...
...name-I know his name," the contestant muttered desperately. For a few seconds longer he punished his memory while some 50 million Americans held their breaths. Then Charles Van Doren, 31, turned full face to the TV camera. "No, I don't," he confessed with a weak smile. "I guess I don't know...
Professor von Blanckenhagen claims with great pride the honor of being the first German scholar to be admitted to this country after the war. He adds with a slight smile that he finds American students far more stimulating to teach than Germans, although far more demanding because they are less respectful and awe-struck and much more curious and questioning, but he claims that this seems to be more true of the University of Chicago than of Harvard...
Quizman Nadler's success is a triumph of mind over manner. On the kind of show that hallows what it calls the "upbeat" personality, he is an offbeat figure: a small (5 ft. 4 in., 152 Ib.) man with an oppressed air, an uneasy smile and a cocky way of blurting his answers. His pronunciation is occasionally mangled, e.g., Joan of Arc was "beautified" in 1909. And his replies are so swift and sure, so full of extraneous details that come gushing with almaniacal glee that the show's producers feared at first that the show would seem...