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Word: smilingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...busy career of basketball and volleyball at Lincoln High. An admirer of the great Tennessee State track coach Ed Temple, Fennoy had been keeping an eye out for his own Wilma Rudolph. The pigtails, the skinny legs, the scraped knees were not his signal. "It was the smile," he says. Coach Fennoy required her to keep journals on the teams' small road trips and monitored her syntax and spelling. "Where you're going," he told her, "you'll need to express yourself with more than your legs and arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Regal Masters Of Olympic Versatility | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

That job description could apply to only one person: John Sasso, 41, the shrewd political operative with an engaging smile and an easy pat-on-the-back manner. For eleven months Sasso had been in purgatory, defrocked as Dukakis' campaign manager for his role in preparing the plagiarism videotape that helped drive Joseph Biden out of the Democratic race. Dukakis had promised that Sasso would play no further role in his campaign. But each time Dukakis stumbled there were new rumors of a resurrection. Last week, as the overconfidence of August gave way to the desperation of September, the summons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rebirth of John Sasso | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Asked outside the courtroom what he did yell, Laub said with a smile, "Death to the fascist...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Protester Fined For HLS Disruption | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

...stop, liquor-store merchants, are all peppered with requests for money, cigarettes and food. "Spare some change?" Brown cries to a man carrying groceries, who lowers his head and scuttles away. "Excuse me!" he shouts to a man in a gray Jaguar, who flashes a frozen smile but keeps his window up and roars away the minute the light turns green. "What's up, pop?" he calls to an elderly couple, who hurriedly push past him. "Just keep asking, keep asking," says Brown after a particularly rude turndown. "Oh, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Connoisseur of the Con | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...morning death's wide swath had left the staff physically and emotionally exhausted. It was time for a tall, somewhat stout, white-haired woman to provide the reassurance of her presence: standing in a stairwell, in the path of grief-bruised nurses and doctors, greeting each with a jovial smile and concerned questions: "How was your weekend?" "Are you exhausted?" "Are you coping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cicely Saunders: Dying with Dignity | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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