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Word: smooth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard picked up in the second period and gained command of the game, but it could only score once. Owen scored the winning goal at 10:17 on a smooth three-on--one play. Harvard caught Brown's defensemen out of position and Cavanagh passed to DeMichele who fed Owen for the score...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Stickmen Coast, 5-1, While Wrestlers Lose | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

...night hemispheres of the moon), the sun dropped from directly overhead toward the horizon, lengthening shadows and bringing out more surface detail. Anders described a new crater with a well-defined ray of powdery material emanating from it. He observed that the Sea of Crises was "amazingly smooth as far as the horizon," which was visible on TV screens as a curved line about 325 miles from Apollo's route. One crater in the area, said Anders, "has strange circular cracks patterned around the middle of it." He also called attention to a mare, or sea, with a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VOYAGE: POETRY AND PERFECTION | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...Europe has long had them, and Japan's highly successful Tokaido express travels at 130 m.p.h. In December, Canadian National Railways started TurboTrain service between Montreal and Toronto, reducing the usual 4-hr. 59-min. trip to 3 hr. 50 min. The Canadian TurboTrains are as clean and smooth as jet planes and cost considerably less to ride. So far, passengers have filled them almost to capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: LATE ARRIVAL OF THE FAST TRAINS | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...smooth lawyer was trying his greatest case. It was, said one who observed it, "the gutsiest performance I've ever seen or ever heard about." For seven months the argument raged. Johnson said little, but he was listening. Clifford threw all his weight behind arguments that persuaded the President to order the partial suspension of bombing of North Viet Nam on March 31 to get talks with Hanoi under way. Again, Clifford's view held sway when bombing was halted altogether on Oct. 31 in an effort to rescue the negotiations from stalemate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How Clifford Helped Reverse the War Policy | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...With smooth precision Harvard's powerhouse varsity fencing team rolled over a hapless Holy Cross squad, 27-3, on Saturday in the IAB. Once again the sabre squad led the rout, with Captain Ron Winfield and sophomore Larry Cetrulo and Pat Parkhurst all undefeated...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Fencing Team Routs Holy Cross; Keller Sabremen Spark Crimson | 12/9/1968 | See Source »

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