Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years had marked him in many ways: the yellow is gone from his hair (indeed, most of the hair is gone); his face and neck are heavily lined. But the spring in his step, the athletic bearing and carriage, all were firm and strong, and the quick laugh and quicker grin marked a personality that had not lost its joy in life. "President Eisenhower," noted the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "entered his seventieth year this week, the first White House incumbent of that age who did not resemble the contemporary concept...
...disarmament proposal was "a pure propaganda maneuver," then it is apparently too bad we did not think of it first. It may be worse than just too bad, if we, as you have done, attempt to sneer at it or to laugh it off as impractical...
...Miller, who teach chemistry and physics at the high school (683 students), began agitating to remodel their dingy classrooms (built in 1926), which seemed closer to the Bronze Age than to the Nuclear Era. Robert W. Schaerer, a rare kind of school-district business manager, was no man to laugh at them. He got them permission to scour the Midwest for plans that grew a bigger price tag by the hour. "We always went big," says Schaerer, "and this was really big. But the school board didn't duck it." One bond referendum was defeated; but just before...
North by Northwest. The master's Hitchcockiest yarn in years gives a picture of the CIA that would make any real-life operative laugh his head off; nevertheless, suspense guaranteed. With Gary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...
...American scene. But articulate observers have seldom been more than articulate, and idealists and social reformers meet complete indifference far more often than opposition. The janitor is no exception. His protests are voiced again and again to various passers-by, and met with a smile, a smirk, a subdued laugh...