Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ylvisaker said he hopes that the early anouncement of his retirement will provide ample time to find a new dean and "allow for a smooth transition...
...down the holiday, strutting the flag. It is a formal rite of remembering, but remembering at a major distance. In their V.F.W. or American Legion caps the old soldiers have long since made peace with their generation's war. They have worn their memories of combat smooth with the retelling. They have grown easy with what they did for their country as young men; they won, and they are proud of it. The horrors that they saw-or performed-so long ago in other countries have been effaced by time, by the approval of history and of the nation...
Treating Atherosclerosis. This condition refers to the narrowing of the arteries by a buildup of fatty deposits. Today many heart specialists theorize that atherosclerosis is a complex process that starts with a minor injury to the smooth single layer of cells that line the arteries in a cobblestone pattern. Researchers speculate that the damage may result from cigarette smoking, high blood pressure or virus infection...
...smooth sailing of the Columbia marked the dawning of a new era for the space age. It proved to the world, especially the Soviet Union, that the shuttle is workable, reusable and real...
White House officials were taking considerable satisfaction from last week's smooth progress in Rome. "If we could just do it like this all the time," sighed one top presidential aide. Gone for the moment, although not entirely forgotten, were Haig's early tactical errors: trying to get Reagan to give him total control of foreign policy; threatening, all but publicly, to resign over the selection of Vice President George Bush as chief of crisis management; announcing, in a trembling, unsteady voice on the day President Reagan was shot, that he was "in control" at the White House...