Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Benedum Field playing surface is a smooth artificial turf, which helped the stick-women make the most of their outstanding speed Co-Captain Martin outran not only the Maroon marking her but the Springfield back-ups as well
...they were sued by the former owner and a local bank. De Lorean leased his 3,000-acre Idaho ranch to Clark Higley, a local farmer, then mortgaged the ranch for $880,000 in 1976 and defaulted on the mortgage. Higley was evicted. Says Higley: "De Lorean is as smooth as silk. His henchman, Roy Nesseth, was on the scene giving us a real struggle. They're just crooks." Inventor Pete Avery of Phoenix says that De Lorean cheated him out of the lucrative rights to a widely used automobile coolant system. Yet Avery, after years of litigation with...
...under the surface, things weren't so smooth. A memo addressed in March to a lower-level bureaucrat in the Selective Service System from an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Criminal Division raised some concerns over the planned method of enforcement. At that point, Selective Service had not yet cross-checked the hundreds of thousands of registration cards with the hundreds of thousands of social security files to see which males born since 1960 had not filled out their registration forms...
...possible staging areas for our rescue team was in an isolated desert region about 200 miles south of Tehran that seemed from aerial photographs to be smooth enough for night landings by transport planes. I authorized the flight of a small airplane for a close visual examination of the desert sand, to see how smooth and firm it was. I was not making a final commitment; at the same time, I wanted training operations and planning to continue...
...April 2, I received a report that our small plane had flown into Iran at a very low altitude, landed in the desert, examined the possible rescue staging site and returned without detection. The pilot reported that it was an ideal place-a smooth and firm surface, adequately isolated, with only a seldom-used country road