Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even a topheavy Pakistani victory by seven wickets did not smooth Pakistani feelings-nor did a formal apology by Britain's Deputy High Commissioner J.M.G. James to Governor General (now President) Iskander Mirza, who is also the Pakistani cricket board president. "English players' defeats have upset their mental balance," said Lahore's Civil and Military Gazette. "Britain's sportsmen show irritability, and resort to indecorous behavior in defeat," added the Pakistan Times. At home the English press called the cricketers "graceless boors . . . bad losers . . . bullies." Said the London Times: "Hooliganism has blotted Britain's reputation...
...relief panels, and isolated pieces of curved or jagged forms built up block by block to suggest human figures or abstract themes. Nivola's block-sculpture is organically interrelated and stylized. There is a certain dullness in the texture of the concrete, especially when combined with smooth, anonymous geometric forms. He has tried to create more interest by marking the surfaces but in terms of whole figures, these markings seem haphazard. Nivola also attempts to create interest in the surfaces by applying color. The scale of this experimentation seems as yet too limited, except in one bas-relief panel. Here...
...finest event of the night was the three-meter dive, in which the Crimson's Greg Stone, back on the three-meter board, returned to his smooth form in totalling 77.6 points to best Princeton's Remington Ball. Duane Murner took third for the varsity...
...Crimson came back strongly as Bob Gilmor wrestled his usual smooth match and easily defeated his opponent in the 167 lb. class. At 177, Casper Cronk, set the stage for Morrison's pin by beating his man on points...
...discovered in wind-tunnel experiments that the total drag on a plane is not merely the sum of the drag on each of its parts, but varies according to where the parts are located. Convair's F-102 was redesigned with a punched-in "coke bottle" fuselage to smooth the air flow over the critical wing junction. Result: on its first flight, Convair's new F-102 not only eased through the sound barrier, but flew 100 m.p.h. faster than anyone expected. The area rule, applied to Grumman's F11F and Chance Vought's F8U, helped...