Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further listener social life, the Network gave eager males a chance to try sales technique on three Cliffedwellers, who picked their prospective dates, over the radio, on the basis of a smooth, steady line. On-the-spot broadcasts of the Dartmouth football games and various University forums let students absorb the local activities without venturing forth into rain or snow or slot outside...
Smart rightists-the tough, gutter-smart Sinarquistas and the smooth, book-smart Action Nationalistas-have made the most of it. They have jumped on the bandwagon, talked loudly about morality in government, have urged more popular participation in civic affairs. Presumably they have also egged on at least some of the public uprisings. In Oaxaca last week the crowd uncovered when orators spoke the name of Pornrio Diaz, president-dictator (with a four-year break) from 1877 to 1911, and to many Mexicans a symbol of reaction and exploitation...
...professor, author of a 41-page thesis on the subject, defined bouncibility as the "coefficient of restitution," and divided all players into two groups: amateurs, who use a "ballistic" or shoving stroke, and professionals, who use a smooth, controlled stroke, with a follow through...
...Hughes. But most airmen considered the settlement little more than an armed truce. Reason: the $10,000,000 loan could keep T.W.A. flying along for a few months, but it still needed at least another $40,000,000 to pay for new equipment on order and get back into smooth air. (The price of T.W.A. stock, which held its own while Hughes and Frye were battling, fell 2⅞ points the day after they came to an agreement...
...first noteworthy chef d'oeuvre since his 'discharge, Mr. Freeman is featured with various other Town Hall concert artists on Keynote Album Number 127. His cohorts are a heterogeneous lot. Trumpeters Charley Shavers, the modernist; "Wild Bill" Davison, the archaie; clarinetist Ernic Caccies, the smooth and polished; and pianist Joe Sullivan, the heavy handed, are all in the melting pot. The residue is for the most part interesting, yet restful, and certainly not run of the mill...