Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he is out in the open, Congressman Rankin is going to have relatively smooth sailing. Most Senators or Representatives would rather spit on Old Glory than be caught in the act of voting against the Veteran, even if they know that the Rankin plan would make the federal budget a grotesque joke. On Tuesday, for example, the House voted twice to chop the enacting clause out of the pension bill--which would have squelched it--but when Rankin demanded a roll call vote, the opposition vanished as if by magic. The enacting clause was left...
...reference. A number of its people (most of them members of a permanent cast) grew up in show business with such bright youngsters as Danny Kaye and Betty Garrett. By & large, the costumes, decor and choreography are better than may be found in any nightclub and many theaters. Its smooth pace is interrupted only by a tedious five-minute commercial which not even the "muddle-talk" of old Radio Comedian Roy Atwell can speed...
...Nile will be at Owen Falls, at the outlet of Lake Victoria. Another will make a reservoir out of Lake Albert. When the whole system is in operation, the water of the White Nile can be held back while the Blue Nile is flowing. The system is expected to smooth out the flow of the lower Nile through Egypt and increase the cultivated area by 1,500,000 acres...
...Commuters had a slight edge on speed, but Lowell's smooth teamwork was the deciding factor in the see-saw contest. The game was a series of up-and-down breaks with Lowell staving off a desperate Dudley charge at the final whistle...
...already been made. Said Kauffmann: "During the war, I got an uncomfortable feeling that there was nobody really underneath me until you got to the copy boys." After the war, Heir-Apparent Kauffmann started replacing the oldtimers with younger, more vigorous department heads. By last week, they were a smooth team. With a clinking cash register (last year the Star was seventh in the U.S. in ad volume), President Kauffmann had no intention of interfering with able Editor Benjamin M. McKelway, 53, who was re-elected last week. And Ben McKelway had no intention of changing the Star...