Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recently unveiled three-quarter-court zone press also succeeded. Fleming and freshman guard Kyle Standley have worked out a deadly sideline trap, and they sprung it flawlessly throughout the second half. Most encouraging of all, the Crimson made smooth transitions from the press to their zone positions...
Donald Regan, 62, has become a White House favorite. The Irish ancestry he shares with the President does not hurt, nor does his smooth, self-assured manner. More important, though, is that, of the top members of the Cabinet, Regan is the only one who has not yet embarrassed the White House or caused a major problem. That in itself is something of a surprise, because when he came to Washington from Wall Street, the Treasury Secretary seemed out of step with the supply-side tax cutters who had Reagan's ear. Regan, who initially warned against the dangers...
...full-bellied 232 lbs. and a month from 40, he looks eminently mortal, not just paunchy but puffy, not only old but tired. "But, see, still smooth," he says, petting his face. "Nose in place, eyebrows untwisted. Show me a scratch anywhere...
...later essay, entitled "Is History a Guide to the Future?," Tuchman returns to this theme, calling man the "Unknown Variable" and comparing the "large organizing idea" to an iron chain mat pulled behind a tractor to smooth out a plowed field...
...used to be so simple. Winter meant Charlie Brown getting hit in the back of his smooth, round noggin with a fat snowball. Spring was Charlie Brown losing another battle with the kite-eating tree. By July, he was whiffing in the bottom of the ninth, and every autumn it was back-to-school love with the little red-haired girl...