Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somber mien was a mask that broke awrinkle in a quick smile. His facile, orderly discussion of military flying impressed them. Smooth and suave, he clinched their approval when they first heard his rather rare but richly accented and discriminating profanity illuminate a point...
Last year's all-House forward, Deacon Howie Ezell, teamed up with another smooth-playing forward, Joe Kameese, to lead Kirkland to a 27 to 18 win. With Ezell coming through with five field goals and Kameese filling the basket for nine points, the Deacons had the game well in hand after the first few minutes of play. Deacon guard Jack "Dead Eye" Eberle showed some of his old form in the second half, rifling the ball down the court on a number of fast breaks...
Some readers will think not. They can nevertheless read Mr. Churchill for its author's sense of history as a pageant of personalities, his eye for vivid, incongruous detail, his ability to compress masses of fact into a smooth ribbon of narrative. They can also read it to trace the development of Winston Churchill from the specious Victorian calm into which he was born, until, an old man, he put the will of a battered empire into four words: "We shall never surrender...
...belly-laughing banker had been given the job of delaying the negotiations as much as possible, so the Finns would get better terms. In most of the talks, while Tanner and Viacheslav Molotov did the hard-headed bargaining, Paasikivi swapped jokes with Stalin and used his chuckle to smooth things over when Tanner got a little heated. But his long-windedness astonished even the Russians...
...language, has a plentiful supply of ideas, puts enough complexity and contradiction into his characters to keep them from being stereotypes. It is like the creation of a culture pearl: an irritant is carefully introduced into the oyster, which then obediently builds up a globe of pearly substance, as smooth and gleaming to the casual glance as the real thing...