Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremely talented group (five of the boat's members have been on U.S. national teams), the Rude and Smooth is the subject of a chapter in David Halberstam's recent book, The Amateurs...
...Around that time, two sayings were really big: we said 'How rude is that' to describe something we thought was bad, and we said 'How smooth is that' if we wanted to say the opposite. The reporter hung around us long enough to pick up our language...
...strategy paid off. They made an impression on the Sports Illustrated reporter, who gave the article the title "The Rude and the Smooth...
...Rude and Smooth" is a fair description of how the boat has performed in recent years. It won its division in 1979, '80 and '81, but ran into a bridge two years...
Wood predicts this year's edition of the Rude and Smooth will do "reasonably well" in the club eights competition. "There's a wide range of conditioning on the boat," he said. "I work out pretty seriously all year round, but some guys haven't been in the boathouse. And we haven't practiced together yet. But we should be something like top five in our division...