Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later in the afternoon a smooth Adams House aggregation whipped a slow-moving Dudley squad 24 to 11, in a game that was characterized by lengthy midcourt heaves in the general direction of the Gold Coast backboard. Adams proved itself a strong defensive squad, but dangerously weak in capitalizing on scoring opportunities...
Born. To Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ("Glamor Girl") Kelly, 24, whose raven-haired, cream-smooth beauty helped to make her 1938's No. 1 debutante; and John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 35, onetime part-owner of professional football's Brooklyn Dodgers: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Brenda Victoria. Weight...
Headed for the No. 2 position, Vice Chief of Naval Operations under non-flying Fleet Admiral Nimitz, was DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, son of an Army officer, but a naval aviator since 1916 with a well-balanced war record of sea and shore duty, and with a smooth personality which fitted him well for dealings with the civilian arms of government. The boost up the ladder would raise Ramsey from two-star to three-star rank. The man he replaced, armorplated Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards, would go to the quiet Western Sea Frontier (headquarters in San Francisco...
Lynn Baker's costumes and David Pike's settings showed considerable taste and imagination in utilizing somewhat limited materials, and the physical production was, in general, smooth and workmanlike...
...with the help of the improved atom bomb) in the virtual extinction of the human race. The only visible survivors, a mother and daughter, were huddled near a rubble heap in the middle of Manhattan, which, blasted and fused by the bombs, elsewhere lay between its rivers as narrow, smooth and shiny as a coffin...