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smiling
smiling The French neurologist, Duchenne du Boulogne, writing in the nineteenth century, made a fundamental discovery about the nature of smiling, a discovery that was forgotten for a hundred years. Duchenne electrically stimulated different positions on the face of a patient who had no pain... Read more |
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Samuel Smiles
Smiles, Samuel (1812–1904). Popularizer of the dominant social values of middle-class Victorian Britain. By profession a doctor, Smiles worked for a time as a radical journalist in Leeds before settling down as secretary (i.e. chief executive officer) to a succession of railway companies. In... Read more |
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Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton 1968- American gymnast Mary Lou Retton burst onto the gymnastic front with all the vivaciousness she could muster, and in doing so, took the world by storm. She changed the way people thought of a gymnast, not having the typical physique for the sport. Retton was very... Read more |
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Richard Tauber
Richard Tauber , 1891-1948, Austrian tenor. He made his debut (1913) in Chemnitz, Germany, as Tamino in Mozart's Magic Flute. Later he sang in opera and concert all over Europe and made his American debut in 1931. Although he was noted for his operatic roles and as a lieder singer, Tauber was best... Read more |
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Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro SuzukiOctober 22, 1973 • Kasugai, JapanBaseball playerIchiro Suzuki has millions of dedicated fans in his native Japan, with his image appearing in daily newspapers and smiling from billboards, coffee mugs, and T-shirts. There is even a museum dedicated to him. Known to his adoring public... Read more |
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carpe diem
carpe diem , a descriptive term for literature that urges readers to live for the moment [from the Latin phrase "seize the day," used by Horace]. The theme, which was widely used in 16th- and 17th-century love poetry, is best exemplified by a familiar stanza from Robert Herrick's "To the... Read more |
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Alek Wek
Alek Wek1977— Model, author, humanitarian Sudanese model Alek Wek represents a fresh, 21st-century attitude from within the fashion industry and the images it sends out into the world about who or what is beautiful. Wek, possessing far darker skin than her African-heritage supermodel predecessors,... Read more |
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Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier , 1888-1972, French singer and film actor. He made his debut in 1900 singing and dancing at the Casino de Tourelles, Paris. As the dancing partner of Mistinguett and as the star of several Paris music halls, he won his public by his charm and inimitable smile; by 1928 his... Read more |
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Playtex Products Inc
Playtex Products, Inc. 300 Nyala Farms RoadWest port, Connecticut 06880U.S.A.(203) 341-4000Fax: (203) 341-4260 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1988Employees: 1,600Sales: $482 million (1995 est.)Stock Exchanges: New YorkSICs: 2676 Sanitary Paper Products; 3089 Plastics Products, Not Elsewhere... Read more |
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Porter Wagoner
Porter WagonerSinger, songwriter, guitarist Legendary country music performer Porter Wagoner was noted for his longstanding commitment to his craft, both in singing and in songwriting. Randy Travis, Alison Krauss, Kitty Wells, George Jones, Bill Monroe: the photographs on the walls of his dressing... Read more |
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bile
bile •aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file...pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile... |
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smile
smile •aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file...pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile... |
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aisle
aisle •aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file...pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile... |
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Anglophile
Anglophile •aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file...pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile... |
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awhile
awhile •aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file...pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile... |
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Carlisle
Carlisle •aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file...pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile... |
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domicile
domicile •aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file...pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile... |
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file
file •aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file...pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile... |
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flexile
flexile •aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file...pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile... |
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kyle
kyle •aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file...pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile... |
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Sarah Silverman; TELEVISION: A hot comic brings her unique brand of bile with...
...s Playhouse" absurdism and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" 's acidity. But Silverman's spin is the way she spews bile with a smile. "A happy-go-lucky douche bag," she says. But people are bound to wonder where the TV Sarah ends and the... |
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Crowning Majority Leader, Democrats Are All Smiles and Bile
At 10:30 yesterday morning, Nancy Pelosi was chosen by acclamation to become speaker of the House. Ninety minutes later, she experienced her first smackdown. Pelosi had only herself to blame for this briefest of honeymoons. Just five days after the Democrats' election victory, she shattered party |
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Behind the smiles, trans-Atlantic bile Europe and the U.S.
Reginald Dale International Herald Tribune 12-29-2005 As 2005 draws to a close, European and American officials are enthusing over how good a year it has been for trans-Atlantic relations. In the words of Nicholas Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs, Europe and the United States |
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CAM SMILES AT BOZ BILE.(News)
Byline: Paul ROUTLEDGE BONKING bigmouth Boris Johnson has an unerring instinct to say whatever will get him on the telly. This time, the Tory frontbench education spokesman (above) boomed his contempt for Jamie Oliver, the celebrity chef who did more for sensible school meals than any politician. |
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Parliament: The Sketch - An unhealthy dose of bile from ratty Frank Dob son
...doctors didn't want "spin with a grin" and it's only fair to say that Mr Dobson obliged, opting instead for bile with a smile, the rictus in question being one of those tense grimaces with which ministers try to pretend that opposition attacks... |
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Bile Hurries Up, Waits For His Time to Come;Former Mason Star Runs Into Bad Luck
...to explain the luck of Abdi Bile? Today, three days before...track and field championships, Bile still didn't know if he would...all he could think to do was smile. "I could be training for...he signs autographs: "Abdi Bile, 1987 World Champion... |
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Out of Africa -- Heather Biles
...drive - it was just awesome." Biles stresses that even the most...even chewed-up pencils." Biles has swathed a wide path to get...ll have other obligations. Biles will continue to educate people...I also love seeing people smile - it's perfect for me... |
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BRAVES PRESCOTT'S BULLDOG GLOWER; Hewas directing his bile at me. Touched, I...
...screwed up her face into a tunnel of bile. David Cairns (Lab, Greenock) bawled...penny dropped that he was directing his bile at me. Yes, little me! Touched, I smiled...expression was worth a snapshot: A horizontal smile, but the skin on his face pale. In the... |
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Football: Insults, hate, venom, boos, jeers, bile. Rooney suffered all this...
...to be the signal for the sick and the sad to spew out their bile. The reactions of fair-minded fans - some of whom appealed...enjoyed himself, even if his horrified family didn't. A smile never seemed far from his face and his link-up work and his... |
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SAVE OUR SEASON; Regan hoping classic will draw a line under bile, bams and...
...the cracks in our fingers. Scottish football can stand up and smile again. Regan is convinced a season littered with controversy...Regan, like many other fans, knows we need a big day free of bile to help the country as well as the game's battered image... |