Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Holy Cross was coasting into its third game, Harvard had been shoved precipitously off the walls of Ithaca. But it was the end of smooth sailing for the Crusaders, too. A vastly superior Dartmouth eleven proceeded to show up all the suspected Holy Cross weaknesses and more. With the Purple line continually outcharged by the Big Green, the T-formation looked mighty impotent...
...Dewey's opponent has little of the Governor's efficient manner. Under great tension, Mr. Truman has frequently made serious errors, such as his angry request to Congress for the power to draft striking railroad workers. His administration has not been smooth. But what Mr. Truman stands for in the way of domestic institutions, and what he has stood for ever since he entered the White House, are measures of greater importance to the prosperity of the nation than efficiency for efficiency's sake. In January, 1946, the President asked Congress for minimum wage and full employment legislation...
Tufts had only two shots at the Harvard goal all yesterday afternoon as the smooth passing; Varsity soccer team rolled to a one-sided 5 to 0 victory over the boys from Medford on the Business School Field. Conceivably the score could have been much higher, but Coach Bruce Munro played his first string only half the game and then let his second and third teams take over...
...cardboard comedy which was meant to be box office but turned out to be a bore. Closing after eight performances, it showed little of what its collaborators are best known for: Groucho Marx, as playwright, lacked the divine madness he displays as a performer; while the smooth Krasnagraph that reeled off Dear Ruth and John Loves Mary badly needed oiling...
Before the war, Irwin Shaw won easy fame and money by turning out smooth and clever plays and stories-for many tastes, rather too smooth and clever. Now, with his war experience to draw upon, Shaw has thrown all his energy and talent into an ambitious novel. As one of the Broadway characters of a Shaw story might say, this is his "big pitch." The sad news is that he has failed; his novel is depressing evidence of how hard it is for a writer to slough off youthful habits...