Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number one slot for the Crimson, junior Kenton Jernigan led last night's assault on the Purple Cows, defeating Doug Robie 15-6, 15-10, 15-6. Jernigan, the top-ranked amatuer in the country and defending collegiate champ, combined a barrage of backhands, forehands, and super-smooth wall shots to ice the victory...
...inactive gas: "They were inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated and gratuitous discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities of speech are a delight. So is the "inexplicable imprecation" for which Levi's great-grandfather was famous: "May he have an accident shaped like an umbrella...
...planning ahead. On the other hand, the record of most forecasters has been inconsistent at best, and for most it has been poor. Forecasting has failed exactly where it is needed most--in anticipating changes or trend breaks. It works best when it is needed least; where changes are smooth or familiar cycles repeat...
...most surprising change was a straight switch in jobs between James Baker III, 54, the President's smooth, politically savvy chief of staff, and Donald Regan, 66, the blustery, hard-driving Secretary of the Treasury. After four grueling years in the White House, Baker had yearned for what he called "a less fast track." With the huge budget deficit and an ambitious tax- reform proposal dominating the domestic agenda, he had decided that Treasury, while less of a pressure cooker, "is where the action will be." Regan, former president and chairman of Merrill Lynch, had long eyed Baker...
During his six-hour summation, Gould charged that TIME was engaged in a "feverish pursuit of scoops" in order to "sell magazines." He called TIME journalists "smooth-faced Boy Scouts" and said that witnesses from the magazine indulged in "self-adulation" when they praised David Halevy's reporting career. As for Halevy himself, an Israeli citizen, Gould derided his war record and called him a "Humphrey Bogart playing Ernie Pyle." He contended that Halevy fabricated the story and that his colleagues at TIME printed it against their better judgment...