Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...romp, an astute adviser warned Thatcher that victory would not bring five years of smooth ruling. He was right. Thatcher's reshuffled Cabinet performed poorly in Parliament. An operation for a detached retina slowed her down over the summer. Scandal struck when it was revealed that Trade Minister and Tory Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson had fathered a child by his secretary. The wayward colleague eventually resigned, but Thatcher's waffling over whether he should quit did her no good. Labor rose from its electoral ashes to choose bright, eloquent Welshman Neil Kinnock, 41, as its new leader. From...
...racquetmen meet MIT at Hemenway Gym on Tuesday afternoon, but the team has relatively smooth sailing until it meets up with Princeton on February 25. Since upcoming matches should pose little challenge, the players will be entering individual outside tournaments to sharpen up their games...
...characters, especially the chorus. During last Friday's production, the show was unexpectedly halted in the middle of the first act by a fire caused by a faulty cable. After a 30-minute delay, with the smell of burnt wire filling the theater, the actors reconvened. The smooth continuation of the play is true credit to the cast and crew, who didn't let the fire break their concentration...
...Gill explains their smooth relationship, each possesses something of his own. Mike is going to win the Heisman, Irving is coveted most by the pros, and Turner is the option quarterback with all the options. "I wouldn't have played...
Culture Club whips up a smooth, seamless sound that proudly picks every pocket of pop for inspiration: reggae, soul, country and western, mainstream rock. The results are whimsical, joyous and occasionally mysterious detonations of apparently casual inspiration. Very cool, very catchy and, to borrow a favorite word of the lead singer's, never naf. "Naf' stands for out of it, rotten, done over and overdone-and not, clearly, for Culture Club, which seems, at this somewhat disjointed juncture on the hit parade, to define the very core of contemporary...