Word: smilingly
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This comfort sprang from knowing that the people who lived in Holworthy 23 might not be able to write my Expos paper or take my Ec 10 hourly, but they would smile and laugh and somehow make the mountains of tasks more bearable...
...anthropologist trekking through the heart of darkness. He is, perhaps, too relentless in his grimness, too unforgiving. But there is a certain perverse integrity in his depressive's gaze, something weirdly compelling in his refusal to ingratiate himself with his audience. You keep waiting for him to crack a smile, offer a consoling gesture, express some softening sentiment. He does not. And if there is much that is withering in his contempt, there is also something bracing in the loony tunelessness of this hymn to human dispirit...
WILLIAM MAGEE, 52, and KATHLEEN MAGEE, 51; NORFOLK, VA.; founders of Operation Smile Plastic surgeon William and his social-worker wife Kathleen began "OpSmile" in 1982; since then it has performed surgery on 18,000 kids in 15 countries to correct--without charge--such disfigurements as cleft palates and burn scars, while training local doctors in the procedures. Says William: "The world is changed by emotion." On June 20, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will award the group a $1 million prize...
...time to quit," he said, exchanging a smile with his brother...
...years old; you have to take some responsibility," Barbosa says to the embarrassed youngster. "C'mon, I know you can do it," he adds with a smile...