Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chapple, another smooth ball handler, comes from Garfield Heights, Cleveland, and is also in the V-12 at Eliot House. Chester Pierce, Freshman civilian from Glen Cove, New York, and Lowell House, starred on the Varsity eleven last fall. Mackintosh played for the Law, renceville School, and is now in the NROTC...
Burma's Casey Jones. It was not smooth rolling at first. M.M. & M. "engineers" had to run a gauntlet of Jap snipers, take time out to fight back with Tommy guns. Hastily repaired bridges sagged dangerously, tigers sometimes trespassed on the right of way. But since the first run on July 18, the train has gone through every day, without fail...
Humor and characterization are excellent in "The Late George Apley," but that is about all. The plot lacks substance and sentimental appeal and has none of the warmth that might have rescued it. The effect is always superficial; never once does the tone of the play suggest a smooth or natural flow. Epigrams and quotable witticisms follow in rapid succession, and if the play's continual references to Boston life delight the audiences here, that delight can be expected to diminish to the chuckle stains, on Broadway. Chuckles do not make hits...
General Allen, a professional soldier who prefers combat to conferences, modestly honked that chief credit for this improvement should go to rayon-smooth naval Captain Harry Butcher, ex-CBS radio executive, aide and close companion of General Eisenhower. For himself, Honk Allen claimed only to have used a field soldier's methods to help clean up a mess...
...American power came back to the Philippines today over the glass-smooth, grass-green waters of Leyte Gulf under a tropical sun coming through an ominous haze lit by yellow flashes and the blasting of guns," that message began. "It was virtually perfect weather for the landings...