Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wisconsin jersey was out in front-in 59.5. Track veterans, remembering Gil Dodds's windmill style, were struck by the contrast; like a good rumba dancer, Gehrmann hardly moved from the waist up. He was all legs, eating up the boards with a long (8½ ft.), smooth and relaxed stride. Crumpled in his right hand, Gehrmann clutched something blue-a handkerchief, for luck...
...path of two-way trade with Europe, which ECA hopes to smooth, was still rocky. When Cleveland's Municipal Light Plant opened bids last week for two new turbogenerators, Switzerland's Brown Boveri & Co., Ltd. was low by $500,000, Nevertheless, some city officials wanted to give the contract to a U.S. firm; they said they felt that replacement parts might be hard to get in event of war. Brown Boveri promptly pointed out that it could retaliate: it had bought more than $2,000,000 worth of U.S. equipment in the last ten months-more than...
...year later the Backers were divorced, and Dolly married her managing editor, Theodore Olin Thackrey. She bought the Bronx Home News, merged it with the Post, and promoted Ted Thackrey to co-publisher and co-editor. They turned out to be no smooth-working team. During the presidential campaign, they debated the candidates and issues in the editorial columns of the Post. Ted was all out for Wallace. Dolly, when she finally made her mind up, was for Dewey. (Staffers, in a letter to the editors, disagreed with both...
...smooth Dunster team, forced to play an outside game by the height and general proficiency of Kirkland's John Lombard and Pat McCormick, shot and passed with accuracy, and then broke the Deacon spirit with a flurry of fast breaks. Leading scorer for Dunster was Jack Norman with 11 points, as John Brunsman concentrated on rebounds. Lombard led Kirkland with eight...
...swift and sometimes brutal melodrama, The Dark Past makes a frank plea for sympathetic understanding, rather than harsh punishment, of young criminals. Smooth performances by Holden and Cobb put the point across without undue sentimentality...