Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true to form for a change, but some of the best teams had a tough time saving the oddsmakers' scalps. Fired-up Colorado led all the way into the final quarter before Oklahoma managed to salvage a 4 5-game unbeaten string, 14-13. Fist fights flared, and smooth football seemed a forgotten art until Notre Dame completed a soaring 74-yd. touchdown pass to trip Pitt, 13-7. Ohio State's Rose Bowl express just managed to stay on schedule when the Buckeyes booted a third-period field goal to stop Wisconsin, 16-13. Army...
...week. Election day was only four weeks off, and every presidential and congressional candidate was busily trying to identify himself with the late great President, who was killed in an airplane crash only seven months ago. "Keep faith with Magsaysay!" cried the Nacionalistas of President Carlos P. Garcia, the smooth, shrewd politician who succeeded to the presidency on Magsaysay's death. "Magsaysay was our guy; now Yulo is our Magsaysay," proclaimed the Liberals, ignoring the fact that Ramon Magsaysay deserted them in disgust for the Nacionalistas...
Perhaps what makes this film such engrossing entertainment, like the others of the unique series, is its power to make one live episodes which could not happen; Zachary Scott's Dimitrios is more smooth, and more thoroughly lousey than an international weasel could be. Each character plays his part with a light hearted desperation one can revel in for an hour and a half of a plotless day Escape...
Just before his 67th birthday, a bearded, scholarly-looking man suffering from leukoplakia appeared at the clinic of Vienna Rhinologist Marcus Hajek. The patient had a group of hard, smooth white spots on the inside of the jaw; expecting a trivial operation, he had not mentioned the visit to his family. But the operation went badly-the growth proved cancerous. In response to an alarming phone call, the patient's wife and daughter rushed to the clinic, found him seated on a kitchen chair with blood all over his clothes. He was too ill to go home...
...behind the scenes of Manhattan's main post office caught the overwhelming frustration of an archaic system, dispirited employees and a staggering, endless load of work. They also recorded pent-up grievances of clerks, letter carriers and their boss, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, presented the contrast of smooth modernity in the mails of Switzerland and The Netherlands and such private U.S. businesses as United Parcel Service, explored the problems of whether and how the post office should pay its own way-instead of losing $2,000,000 a day. Murrow gave both sides of such thorny issues...