21.   These days, Meidl can manage a smile at the memory.

22.   Then, after a whispered exchange with a woman beside him, he inexplicably relaxes his shoulders and even manages a smile.

23.   With a face blackened by frostbite and hands swathed in bandages, Dr. Beck Weathers returned from Mount Everest on Thursday and managed a smile through chapped lips.

24.   Yet even as he shivered at the memory, Lopez managed a smile.

25.   A day after one of the great disappointments of his life, Michigan State goalie Ryan Miller managed a smile.

26.   After a sip, Mrs. Clinton managed a smile.

27.   All the hostages looked wan but some managed weak smiles.

28.   As he replayed the crash in his head later, while wearing sandals and white socks at the team hotel, he managed a smile.

29.   As he replayed the crash in his head later, he managed a smile.

30.   As Lori Berenson was led out of the court after the session, she blew her parents a kiss and managed a smile.