Word: smilingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final legislation looks nothing like what Clinton proposed, the President's plan will at least mark the end of the politics of avoidance on this issue. Archer, who has announced his retirement, would love to cap his years in Congress with a major deal. Historians may also smile on the plan. After all, a game of chicken ends only when the more responsible player swerves to avoid disaster...
...state probably would have had a tidy case against Peeler, but Snead was murdered before he could testify who had shot at him. That left only one witness, a third-grader whose smile was sunny and persistent, who should have had no cares but to tell his jokes and read a favorite book, Double Trouble in Walla Walla. Instead, B.J. agreed to tell authorities what he knew about guns and blood. Prosecutors planned to call him as the key witness in what was now to be Peeler's murder trial...
...film, the man who may have been her heart's truest desire caresses Anna's face with his large hand. An older Anna looks back on that moment with a smile that understands and accepts everything. For out of these private conversations, Bergman says, something beyond anguish or exaltation may emerge. Something like wisdom...
...here I come dangerously close to becoming just one more plaintive voice in the cacophony of reading period dismay. Rather, we should all try to put our troubles in the back of our minds, and face life with--if not a smile and a wink--at least a silent stoicism. Towards that end, we need only look to the oft-neglected outside world for ever-present reminder that things could certainly be a whole lot worse...
DIED. JERRY QUARRY, 53, Hall of Fame boxer; of pneumonia; in Templeton, Calif. Though he never won the heavyweight title, the popular pugilist, whom opponent Joe Frazier called the "good-looking Irish kid with a nice smile," put up decent fights against many of the greats, including Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali. In recent years he was incapacitated by dementia and a loss of motor skills resulting from repeated blows to the head during his three-decade career...