Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smooth-working, alert Holy Cross basketbll quintet had entirely too many guns for the Varsity quintet last night, when the Crusaders handed Coach Bill Barclay's forces their first defeat of the season, 61 to 40, before 6,500 spectators at the Boston Garden...
...seven years. The 90 guests used gold cutlery from McKinley's time, and china designed by Franklin Roosevelt. The dinner, with turkey as the main course, was called "a good American meal." Harry Truman, who dislikes white tie & tails, wore them well, was apparently at ease and smooth and amiable with the starchy, beribboned envoys. The diplomats agreed they had had a nice evening, and pretty informal, after...
...Smooth. "Another striking thing is the prose style of the advertisements, an extraordinary mixture of sheer lushness with clipped and sometimes very expensive technical jargon. Words like suave-mannered, custom-finished, contour-conforming, mitt-back, innersole, backdip, midriff, swoosh, swash, curvaceous, slenderize and pet-smooth are flung about with evident full expectation that the reader will understand them at a glance...
...because there probably won't be any. You probably won't even be able to tell who is going to start, because not even Coach Barclay is sure so far. But you will be able to discover that the 1946-47 Crimson quintet will be a soundly coached team, smooth in its knowledge of fundamentals, and sure in its ball handling...
...reality of the production, but it surely did not add to the necessarily exact timing between the orchestra, solo voices, and chorus. And despite the obvious virtues of understanding gained by using English words, no one interested in music will ever be reconciled to hearing the quick rhymes and smooth-flowing Italian diction of librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte exchanged for the ponderous, ungainly English of even so able translator as Edward Dent...