Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whisked the home spectator all over the field almost as intimately as the ball itself, perched him right behind the umpire at home plate, let him look over the pitcher's shoulder, or into the dust cloud at third. It was a job that took teamwork as smooth as any on the ballfield. Alertly swung and aimed cameras sent a confusing pell-mell of images from all angles into a control room where split-second decisions distilled the chaos into the crisp, orderly telecasts that brought the World Series to baseball's biggest audience-some 40 million...
Hopes for the soccer team's first victory of the season will be pinned on the smooth functioning of the forward line when a convalescent Crimson squad plays the Lord Jeffs at Amherst at 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon...
...Adversaries. Tito grows through the book from an awkward villager to a smooth party functionary to a puffed-up dictator wearing the most splendid uniforms since Göring. He alternately appears a shrewd peasant, a cold-eyed killer, a sentimental family man. There is rough humor as well as ruthlessness in him, courage but little real rashness, some pity but no compassion. His friends and enemies were men of great complexity. There was Milovan Djilas, the Montenegrin partisan who seemed determined to infuse some humanity into the Communist machine and today, from jail, is one of its more eloquent...
...ideal places to station giant rockets in ready-to-go position. Temperature and humidity would be low and constant, deep under the ice, and this is good for delicate mechanism. Under-ice supply routes would lead invisibly in from the coast, and over the base itself would spread a smooth, white plain, showing no faintest sign of human activity...
...unexpected places. Mobile American families switch church affiliations just about as frequently as they move (20% per year), reported Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, associate general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ. Concluded he: "This constant shifting around tends to de-emphasize denominational differences and smooth the path toward Christian unity...