Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister took the torch from the old Titan's hand and prepared to carry on in his place. Sir Anthony Eden, 57, had waited patiently for the summons that he knew must come; the change had long been accepted as inevitable; the transition was smooth and speedy. Yet last week, when it did come, the replacement of their great Prime Minister struck Britons with all the suddenness of the sun going down behind Ben Nevis...
Liquid Tile. A liquid plastic that dries into a smooth, hard, waterproof, tile-like surface was put on sale by Ev-R Shield Products, Inc. of Joppa, Md. "Glascote," painted by brush, swab or roller onto porous materials like plaster, plaster wallboard, seasoned wood, concrete or pressed wood, develops a poreless finish that, says the manufacturer, is invulnerable to all known solvents. Price...
...also hard on the Radcliffe Dance Group and the non-Radcliffe people who took the male parts. For a ballet sort of thing with a narrator who reads prose that usually turns into poetry must be very quiet and smooth and like a dream vista so that the dancers do for the audience what the prose cannot. When there are only sixty people scattered close in front of a small stage, it is hard for the dancers to be either silent or abstract...
Shepard plans to use sophomore John Simourian, a smooth fielding, hard hitting lefthander, at first base. Two versatile lettermen Ned Felton and Bill Chauncey, can play either at first or in the outfield...
...Charles E. Bohlen, assistant to the Secretary of State (now Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.), acted both as interpreter for President Roosevelt and as narrator of the Big Three meetings. His smooth narrative is regarded by the State Department as "the nearest approach to an official American record of the Yalta Conference." 2) H. Freeman Matthews, director of the State Department's Office of European Affairs (now Ambassador to The Netherlands), put much conference dialogue in direct quotations. 3) Alger Hiss, who went to Yalta as U.S. adviser on United Nations matters, took sketchy, sometimes inaccurate longhand notes and never...