Word: smoothing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smooth the way toward independence, the five Western members of the U.N. Security Council have proposed a plan under which the U.N. would supervise Namibian elections later this year...
...this year of years, he still has one regret. He should have altered his putting stroke long ago. "Well, actually," he says, "it wasn't really a stroke before. It was more like this." And Gary Player stabs haltingly at an imagined ball. Now he putts with a smooth, almost gentle stroke, as counseled by his wife Vivienne, and he marvels at what might have been. "If I had changed it 20 years ago, I'm sure I could have won 200 tournaments...
...Opens−in the same year. He is a quarter of the way there. Says he: "Don't say I'm an eternal optimist. I'm a positive thinker." And, of course, he will be using his new technique on the greens, ignoring the fact that smooth putting strokes are like fickle women−here today, gone tomorrow−and the older a man gets, the quicker they go. Gary Player would not let an unpositive thought like that enter his mind...
...Harvard man isn't just another pretty face. The four-year yet stroke yelled for the stretch-drive spring earlier than Princeton anticipated. The Tigers panicked and decided to try to match Harvard's sprint, but the gang from Jerseyland didn't have the petro left to catch the smooth-sailing Crimson squad...
Higginson decided to reinstate veteran senior Kevin Cunningham at stroke while sliding in towheaded junior Jim Russell at the pivotal seven seat. "Jim's a smooth oarsman whose style complements the strength in our boat," Cordeiro said...