Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expert at collecting bases on balls, breaking up double plays, and heckling and generally enraging opponents. Now 49 and in his second year as manager of the Chicago White Sox, who last week were leading the American League by 4½ games, Stanky insists that he is as smooth and mellow as V.S.O.P. Napoleon. "How can a blue-eyed man like me be a villain?" he asks. "I have a wonderful personality...
...race, however, the outcome was by no means certain. Vesper jumped to a quick lead, and Harvard's shaky rowers were just even with Penn, a crew twice defeated by the Crimson earlier this year. But by the 500-meter mark, Harvard had settled down to a smooth and surprisingly low pace of 35-36, and was gaining ground fast. At 1000 meters, it was half a length ahead of Vesper, a full length ahead of Penn, and still pulling away...
...crash) are attributed to the Chief's ambition and insecurity; and a few foreshortened political standbys like Stevenson, Warren and Wayne Morse. The rhetoric is tired and tiring. J.F. Ken O'Dunc promises "A giant generation / geared for glory, seared in sacrifice"; his successor pledges the achievement of "the Smooth Society" which "has room for all; / for each, a house, a car, a family, / A private psychoanalyst, a dog, / And rows of gardens, neatly trimmed and hedged"; Bobby, after slaughtering the usurper and mounting the dias, announces his continuing to MacBird's ideals. MacBird is constitutionally immune to Negroes, Bobby...
...coalition's smooth operation is the unlikely friendship between a onetime Nazi functionary and a former Communist underground agent. Kiesinger seldom lets a morning go by without telephoning Herbert Wehner, the Socialists' No. 2 man, who is Minister for All-German Affairs...
Before long, several British firms had produced working prototypes of the peripheral-air-wall hovercraft, lifted by pressure produced by the air stream from horizontally mounted fans and driven laterally by aircraft-type propellers. Although the ingenious craft could skim almost effortlessly along smooth highways and waterways at automobile speeds, even the most powerful could not rise more than a foot above the sur face; the air curtain could not effectively contain pressurized air above this height. As a result, hovercraft could not operate over choppy seas or rough ground, where they might smash into jutting rocks or wave tops...