Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After accepting that, of course, you can sit back, smile, and watch with wide eyes. With all the glittering costumes and the rotating mirrored sets, however, the extravagance at times seems almost embarrassing. The book is just too silly, and quite a few of the songs ring flat in the contemporary ear. Among the notable exceptions to this are some familiar hummable-or perhaps more appropriately, toe-tapping-numbers, including "We're in the Money," Lullaby of Broadway," Shuffle Off to Buffalo," and the title song...
...Reagan's achievements still is greater than that of his failures. If the balance changes in the dark of some night in these next months, then every goof he has ever made, every policy that has failed, every miniscandal he has brushed against and even his beguiling smile will become objects of loathing. It could happen. It is almost impossible to predict when the public will decide that a President is more loser than winner. But the people let the White House know in a hurry when they make up their minds. It was some time in 1966 that...
...maximum authority" in Metalio, a Salvadoran seaside village of 6,000. Several members of his ten-man army unit listen, fingering their weapons, as Rivas boasts that Metalio remains untouched by his country's cyclones of violence. "This is a very peaceful place," he says with a smile, his gold-capped teeth glinting in the light. "We treat the civilian population well, so we in turn are well treated. I am friends with everyone. Ask people. They will tell...
...Claiborne, whose master, Seth Hancock, had been the syndicator of Devil's Bag. So he commended one horse but owned the other. As Devil's Bag's form was declining, Swale was winning the Florida Derby, and Hancock was caught between a frown and a smile. Meanwhile, Stephens fell ill from emphysema, compounded by a rib-rattling fall and exasperated by the collapse of the special horse. "Devil's Bag just never found himself this year," murmured Stephens, 70, who was furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale in person. Looking small and wan, dappled...
...there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory...