Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile. The fact that the English won this event was not surprising, but Morgan's performance was amazing. Brasher edged Morgan out for first two years ago when the English traveled to Harvard Stadium for the combined meet and again this spring in the Oxford-Cambridge meet, but the smooth striding Morgan was clearly the master in this race. He not only ran the race 15 seconds faster than he ever had before, but beat his supposed superior by almost 20 seconds. He was 30 seconds under the meet record...
...brutal plotter, still a master of his craft. His diligent Red troublemakers and riot-prompters speckle Western Germany. His saboteurs have infiltrated West Germany so extensively in recent months that West German industrialists announced last week they were planning a mutual security program to protect their plants. His smooth exploitation of the West Germans' desire for trade and of the opportunities for smuggling was working so well that occupation authorities were considering stringent measures. As a sample, the U.S. ECA mission to Germany took steps last week to withhold 6,000,000 marks in ECA counterpart funds from...
...accepting the dredge from the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires. Grouped around Phibun were the fashionably dressed ladies & gentlemen of Bangkok's diplomatic corps. The first inkling of trouble came when a fluttery British lady in long gloves and a floppy picture hat was approached by a smooth-shaven young Siamese marine, who said quietly: "Please step to one side, Madam. We are about to arrest the Premier...
...parts white, one part whole wheat. Add baking powder, two tablespoons. Add salt to taste -if the party had a drink the night before, add a little bit more salt so they can taste the pancake. Put it through the sifter together. Then stir until the batter is smooth...
French tennis fans have a word for an old hand who plays a steady, smooth-stroking, unspectacular game: "crocodile." In the recent French championships the fans spotted two of the species:* Lefthander Jaroslav Drobny, 32, a self-exiled Czech now playing for Egypt, and South Africa's Eric Sturgess, 29, whose smooth ground strokes are reminiscent of the days when tennis was played, and won, from the base line. By the semifinals of the French tournament not one of the slam-bang U.S. players was left, and the pride of the victorious Australian Davis Cup team, Frank Sedgman...