Word: smirking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fastow sat calmly on the front corner of his seat. He filled his cheeks with air and blew them out. He mashed his lips together between questions. His face often fell into a smirk. If there was a question he didn?t want to answer, he poured himself a glass of water first. But by the end of the second day of cross-examination, he looked worn out. The more tired he got, the more polite he became. His brow was furrowed and he said that he was a little confused. His answers were shorter, and he said "sir" without...
...publisher Kenyon S. Weaver ’03. October 30, 2003 FM printed a jack-o-lantern stencil of Summers’ face so students could make their own festive Jack-O-Larrys. With a pin of the pattern to the pumpkin, viola! Summers’ smirk glowed eerily throughout the night. December 4, 2003 FM got the scoop on Summers’ “low-carb, high-tennis” diet. Summers’ suddenly lean look shocked students, and FM was determined to get to the bottom of the sudden weight loss. The presidential secret was Atkins...
...understated. Europe, although it has given the world its fair share of evil, has given the world the principles of democracy, human rights, and international law, the building blocks of any political system that does not denigrate man’s dignity. While many in America are content to smirk at Europe’s failures, or take some measure of pleasure in its impending collapse, we should all pray and hope that the continent that gave us not only Hitler and Stalin but also Beethoven, Bach, Locke, and Kant can save itself from its accelerating descent into inconsequence...
With our perfect historical hindsight we can, of course, smirk at poor Mr. Blum’s naiveté. How could he think that you could do business with a Nazi? How could he think he was dealing with a rational actor? Shouldn’t he have realized that he was dealing with evil incarnate? What a fool...
...recalls. “In fact, to do nothing.”At college, Simon ran a dramatic group called the Harvard Radio Workshop, “a dramatic group that depended on the kindness of the Harvard Crimson Network,” he says with a smirk, “which kindnesses were not always as kind as one would like.” The Crimson Network was a radio station affiliated with this newspaper during Simon’s college career, but the network and The Crimson severed ties in 1947.He even tried his hand at playwriting; however...