Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bounces. Surveyor's pictures also showed that the spacecraft was resting on a gentle slope inside a saucer-shaped crater about 150 ft. across and 20 ft. deep. Although the camera could not peek above the crater's rim, it revealed that the crater floor was relatively smooth, pockmarked with some smaller craters and littered with pebbles and a few rocks no larger than a foot across. All in all, it appeared that the area, one of the eight selected as possible targets for the Apollo mission, was level and uncluttered enough to allow the Apollo lunar module...
...opening movement of J.S. Bach's Sonata No.5 was reposed and meditative. Kalam used the lyrical possibilities of the piano to spin out long, smooth lines. Street's approach was even more subdued; his tone was always sweet-sometimes almost ethereal...
...down-to-earth escapist fare. But it must not be dismissed too lightly. The mature Greene is never a mere Sunday writer; there is always an element of earnestness about his game. And in May We Borrow Your Husband?, he is still the consummate pro: his picture swing is smooth, his stroke is completely unmannered yet perfectly controlled, his style is at once artful and impeccable. Yet beneath all the skill lurks an unprofessional but engaging note of bittersweet poignancy...
Firepower & Mass Attack. After World War II, Abrams made a smooth transition to staff officer, attended Command and General Staff College and the Army War College, rewrote a book on armored tactics, then served as a corps chief in Korea. In 1960, after a series of U.S. staff assignments, he was given command of the 3rd Armored Division in West Germany-in time for the Berlin crisis of 1961. Next year Abrams returned to the U.S. as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations for Civil Affairs, and had the unlikely task of quelling riots at Birmingham...
While he was in Laredo last month. Hale called on Kazen in his downtown law offices. What they discussed is unknown, but many suspect that Kazen has long felt the whole Laredo VISTA program to be a potential threas to the smooth functioning of the machine, and was taking this opportunity to help get rid of two of the biggest "troublemakers...