Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary Benson had cause to smile; the decision meant victory for the department in a long, drawn-out discussion with the State Department. Benson is eager to export Commodity Credit Corp. cotton at attractive prices and has felt prods from similarly inclined cotton growers and Congressmen. The State Department, sensitive to pleas from fretful cotton countries, e.g., Egypt, Peru, Mexico, advised holding back the surplus lest it ruin the market and upset the economies of friendly countries...
...rare smile lit the stony face of South Africa's Nationalist Prime Minister Johannes Strydom last week. After five years of relentless campaigning, this taut, thin-lipped, back-country lawyer and ostrich farmer had won the parliamentary fight to establish white supremacy in a land of 2,600,000 whites and 10,000,000 nonwhites. Its Upper House now packed with 41 new, Strydom-created Senators to furnish the necessary votes, Parliament bowled heavily through a final joint session to change an "entrenched clause" in the 1909 South African constitution and strike the last 45,000 Colored (mixed blood...
...that catches him like a fishhook. This is Richard-lame leg, hunchback, "weerish withered arme" and all-and he is a frightening man indeed. A minute later the moviegoer is alone with the monster. "Why," he confides, as the thin lip writhes with an impish humor, "I can smile, and murder while I smile / . . . And wet my cheeks with artificial tears . . . / Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? / Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down...
Because of an old wound, Terrorist Lo cannot smile, but only grimace, and he speaks through clenched teeth out of the corner of his mouth. A chain smoker, heavy drinker and woman chaser, Lo has made a unique contribution to Marxist dialectics: he invented "the deviation of boundless magnanimity" (i.e., being too soft on counter-revolutionaries), a deviation which had to be "discovered and resolutely corrected." Though now a full general and recently decorated, Lo still lacks high party rating (he is one of 27 alternates of the Central Committee), and Mao still keeps much of the secret political...
Northeastern goalie Bill Lawn had time to smile only occasionally during last night's varsity hockey game at Watson; after it was over he couldn't do anything else. Single-handedly he had upset the Colorado-minded Crimson...