Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price of the cartel's oil has jumped from $2.41 per bbl. to $14.55, an incredible $550 billion has cascaded into OPEC coffers. The cartel's leaders, many of whom head backward and unstable regimes, have been propelled to the forefront of world economic, financial and strategic affairs. Variously smooth and snappish, OPEC'S chiefs contend that they are merely embellishing the rules of the game as taught by the oil majors. From the moment that John D. Rockefeller organized the infant U.S. petroleum industry into a producers' cartel to maintain stable and profitable prices, companies have employed one device...
With no score in the bottom of the sixth (doubleheader games are only seven innings long), Dartmouth sparred Harvard starter Larry Brown for three two-out runs on four consecutive hits. "I had been going almost too smooth up to that point. I got the first two men and then I had the next guy (Dartmouth DH Mike "Bull' Durham) 3-and-2 before I got my slider up and he hit it. It was kind of a shot put and after that I lost my concentration," Brown said afterwards...
Coxswain Harry You explained the squad's deceptive speed: "If it's as smooth as we're going and it doesn't feel so tough, that's an indication that you're moving...
Settling to a modest cadence of 34 and working long, smooth strokes, the varsity lights steamed to a 10.5-sec. victory. As Cominsky put it, "Navy just forgot to weigh anchor, I guess...
...husband, Hector, (Kevin Fitzpatrick) in an Arabian robe and to keep him around as a housepet. But Hector surprises the audience with his strength of character. In the final act, he displays both heroism and an astute self-consciousness of the indolence and uselessness plaguing his society. Fitzpatrick's smooth acting makes this transition quite believable...