Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kindly Mother Dewitt, buttering her second English muffin one morning long ago, explained dining etiquette thusly: if you like the food at someone's house, eat only as much as you want, for your smile will drive away any doubts of displeasure. If you dislike the food, eat it all and ask for seconds--even if you do the psychedelic yawn afterwards (mother prefers a different metaphor...
...tell him that the eldest daughter of El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte had been kidnaped by gunmen. "I wouldn't have bothered you, Mr. President," said McFarlane, "but Dan Rather is here, and he knows about it. He might ask you." A grateful President held his warm smile, armored against any ensnaring questions...
...image-conscious Gorbachev has repeatedly flashed his smile on Soviet TV, visiting factories and plunging into street crowds to deliver off-the-cuff speeches. In Leningrad, a woman shouted to him, "Just get close to the people and they won't let you down." As the throng pressed in on him, Gorbachev shot back, "Can I get any closer?" In Kiev, he suffered a rare public slip of the tongue, twice referring to the country he leads as "Russia" before correcting himself to say "the Soviet Union, as we now call it, and as it in fact is." The mistake...
...dealing with some other Third World leaders, Gorbachev has shown the iron teeth rather than the broad smile. He told Pakistan's Zia ul-Haq that continued Pakistani assistance to guerrillas battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan would affect relations with the U.S.S.R. "in the most negative way." Said Zia: "Gorbachev was twisting my arm." Zia did not yield...
...those who seek more extensive smile repair or who risk losing their teeth because of overcrowding or bite problems, orthodontics offers a range of alternatives. Clear plastic braces, available for the past ten years, have made orthodontics more palatable to adults, who now account for 20% of the braces business. "Invisible," or lingual, braces, which are applied to the backs of teeth, are even less conspicuous, though some users complain of tongue irritation and mild speech problems...