Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Talking Poor Mouth. Behind the Japanese businessman's broad smile lies an uneasy feeling. Said a Tokyo industrialist last week: "I regard the present prosperity as I do my stomach when it is full of rice. I can see it. I can feel it. Even so, I keep on wondering how long it will be before I am hungry again." Some...
...year franchises. Right off the bat Harlow Curtice announced that G.M. was offering to turn the one-year franchises of all its 17,000 dealers into five-year contracts. The announcement caught Subcommittee Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney by surprise, but he quickly broke into a pleased smile and congratulated Curtice for taking "the suggestion I made when you were last here... I hope that Ford will promptly take congnizance of what you have done, and Chrystler likewise...
...seventy-eight yen fifty . . . It was the price of Kodak No. 3A. anastigmatic lens, shutter for both time and instantaneous exposures"). Time has retouched Author Raucat's Japan without cropping any essentials in his cultural snapshots. Few writers have probed more skillfully behind the deep bow and the polite smile for that web of obligations which keep the Japanese in a fine sweat between one-upmanship and one-downmanship. Fewer still have captured the pratfalls of Western emulation...
...loudly to have that twelve-foot basket of his made regulation; the regulation height is now ten feet. The big shooters, he has argued often, are killing the passing, the dribbling, the teamwork that makes basketball exciting. But now Phog has Wilt the Stilt. Says he with a quiet smile: "Twelve-foot baskets? What are you talking about? I've developed amnesia...
...Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., and Bob at Denison University, are unmarried.) After dinner there is more work: meetings at the church, civic committees and visiting ill parishioners. He has no hobbies-apparently he needs none. The gentle calm in his blue-grey eyes, in his slow, broad smile, in his unhurried passage through a 16-hour day, baffles those who know him only casually. Says he: "Calmness is rooted in faith in God, in yourself, and in the ultimate triumph of justice." Melting Pot. Richmond's First Baptist Church is not average: it is too big and too prosperous...