Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesman for George Washington University Hospital, cautioned that it would be several days before doctors could judge if the operation had been a success. His employer, however, was confident. Asked if he was going to keep the press secretary's job open for Brady, Reagan replied with a smile...
Already the campaign is showing results, according to China's Xinhua News Agency. Some buses in Peking proudly display a yellow windshield strip designating "polite service." Store clerks are now encouraged to smile and refrain from snapping "see for yourself" at customers. Even some police, reports Xinhua, have begun to acknowledge "the mistaken idea that since they represent the proletarian dictatorship, they have a right to shout at people." From now on they will no longer yell "hey you" at traffic violators; perhaps it will be a polite...
...main reasons the facilities are so poor. She recalls a run-in with a department secretary who controlled the keys to all the piano practice rooms. "When I asked her for the key to the grand piano, she looked up at me with this little smile and said. "You mean the pianos downstairs aren't good enough...
MICHAEL J. ARLEN writes about television much the same way Nabokov wrote about the appalling manners of the bourgeoise--as if from a great height, but always with a folksy, familiar smile. In a way it's a style that accentuates the very elegance it is perhaps trying to diffuse; a style all the more fitting to The New Yorker, that dual bastion and mausoleum of literacy, where Arlen's "The Air" column regularly appears. The New Yorker's literacy is a curious one, of course, harking back to the most Anglophilic time in our history. It is a magazine...
...luck of their sheer possibility. Foreigners bemused by America have often thought that too much good luck deprived Americans of a sense of the tragic. In the past 15 years or so, Americans have been riding a bad streak. It is possible they responded to Reagan because his smile reminded them of a time when America was lucky...