Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pandole, a sophomore, displayed his improved game with a smooth 15-9, 15-9, 15-12 triumph over Navy's John Springer from the number two spot...
...time Esty decided that something might be done with Uncle John's skin formulas, she worked tirelessly behind cramped counters, in the waiting rooms of store buyers, pushing, touching, smearing, charming, hectoring. When she first met Helena Rubinstein, she told her that Lauder Creme Pack would do much to smooth out Madame's neck. (Decades later she astounded Jeane Kirkpatrick with the suggestion that her clothes aged her. "You mean you don't like what I'm wearing?" gasped the Ambassador...
While Italian political life returned to normal, the Achille Lauro embarked on a new cruise with 570 tourists on board. It was not all smooth sailing. A bomb scare was taken so seriously that a nervous crew dumped a cargo of slot machines into the sea rather than risk the chance of hidden explosives among the crates. The ship also left a wake of legal problems. Italy's Supreme Court settled a quarrel over whether Genoa or Syracuse would have the authority to / continue the investigation of the hijacking and bring the terrorists to trial. Genoa won on the ground...
...first day of racing was smooth sailing for Harvard, as it ended Saturday in first place--four points ahead of defending national champion Boston University...
...these hearings, and all of these sanctions, will be so much misplaced zeal and effort. If the Administration were as quick to value the moral argument against apartheid as they are the "smooth" functioning of their University, we might all be able to attend to the real issues at hand--whether this University stands for something higher that profit, whether the truth in "Veritas" really means anything. (and incidentally, truth is never "neutral...