Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continued to be elusive, Worrell remained an admirer. Says she: "At the worst times, when I was the most frustrated, I would hear his Billie Jean on the radio, or his Beat It video would come on MTV. Then all the frustration would evaporate, and I would have to smile...
...electric," said Nancy White Horse, who already had many grandchildren of her own. Then, as we stood amid the tall yellow grass by her road, she made me a promise. "You're not the first to fly out here and look around," she informed me with a patient smile. "Nothing ever comes of it, but I'll tell you what: if you can get some houses built for my people, I'll make you a quilt...
With a mysterious half-smile playing across his lips, a trademark red rose in his lapel and gaggles of young women clinging to his words, Trudeau often seemed more a rake than the philosopher-statesman he aspired to be. Still, the rake's progress was remarkable. The son of a Quebec millionaire, Trudeau had played the stylish dilettante who was occasionally known to ride motorcycles until a successful election bid carried him to Parliament in 1965. There such habits as occasionally wearing sandals to work and driving sports cars made Trudeau a darling of the media. When he called...
...largest field ever in British electoral history, and with 17 candidates in the race, the ceremonial reading of the results droned on and on. But Chesterfield's returning officer dutifully completed the list, noting without so much as a smile that Pop Singer Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Loony Party had won 178 votes and College Student Giancarlo Piccaro of the Official Acne Party (its avowed aim: eradication of the skin disorder) had somehow picked up 15 votes. The Conservative candidate, Nicholas Bourne, polled a disappointing 15%, while Max Payne, representing the Liberal-Social Democratic alliance, came...
...Stark. For their part, Katie's parents (he is a well-established London gynecologist) seemed to have no objections. Their daughter, who has modeled and acted on TV and in the movies, has said nothing about the romance, keeping the hounding press at bay with a pleasant smile and chirpy "No comment...