Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headquarters in the peaceful countryside near Paris, NATO's retiring General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, smiled a bony smile. One big thing still needed to be said publicly to back up the week's U.S. diplomacy. Now Gruenther, with specific White House authority, set about saying it in terms that no Communist geopolitician could misunderstand. "The main purpose and the guiding principle that we always have," he began, "is to deter a war from taking place . . . Probably the outstanding element in the deterrent as of today, the 13th of November, 1956, is the fact...
...Secretary Khrushchev, flying in to Warsaw, had brushed Gomulka's hand aside, crying: "Traitor! I will show you what the road to socialism looks like. If you don't obey, we'll crush you" (TIME, Oct. 29). Now, as Gomulka stepped out, the trace of a smile on his thin lips, Khrushchev and Premier Bulganin, plump as penguins in their astrakhan greatcoats and caps, waddled forward to pump the lean Gomulka's hand...
...Jargon. "I am glad to be in the glorious capital of the great Soviet Union," said Gomulka. "Nothing is more important than our fraternal and friendly relations." Then, looking past the microphones, he let his thin smile fade and spoke with deadly earnestness: "The most lasting foundation for such relations are the Leninist principles of equality of rights of small and great nations...
...rationing, mounting unemployment as oil-dependent industries were forced to slow down. Britain has already asked drivers to stay off the road voluntarily to conserve fuel, expects full-scale rationing by Christmas (see FOREIGN NEWS). But despite their troubles, London's papers could still note, with a wry smile, that the Arabs had their troubles, too, were unable to ship abroad all the oil they produced...
...little speech in which he observed how wise the Council had been under duress, and that the fund was completely apolitical in nature. As a flurry of coats and men made for the door on adjournment, Al Hofeld '58, who had said nothing during the proceedings, rose and smiled an enigmatic little smile...