Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right flank rode Edgar Faure, the slick-as-onionskin politician who precipitated the snap elections, and Antoine Pinay, the slow and steady little tanner from St.Chamond. They led a relatively smooth-working alliance of independents, farmers, other conservatives and Catholic M.R.P.s...
...patients (two-thirds of them women), and enjoyed mixing with the others in the high-ceilinged day rooms, comparing problems, reading or just listening to the radio. (There is no TV; the doctors doubt that it would help.) Beneath the surface, things were not quite so smooth. Her psychiatrist diagnosed Emma's case as hysteria; she was an immature personality who playacted in real life and shut out problems by simply pretending that they did not exist, especially in regard...
...grown in range, flexibility and control-as she demonstrated last week when she sang with the famed Bach Aria Group in Manhattan's Town Hall. She steered the opulent sounds of her voice gracefully along the sometimes tortured paths of Bach's counterpoint. Its gamut was smooth and even from the light, flutey high notes, where sopranos often lose character, to rich, viola-like lows. When she finished her arias, she accepted her heavy applause and sat down serenely, secure in the knowledge that she could remain at the top of the concert heap indefinitely...
Curtice will not-and for reasons that are fundamental to the vitality of any large, competitive corporation. "If you stand still," says G.M. Chairman Sloan, now 80, "you go behind." Competition demands efficiency, and the whole efficient, smooth-running corporation could soon turn sour, as the Allison Division did, if it were forced to slow down to an artificial pace. Profits, in a modern corporation, have a function beyond providing earned surplus and dividends (and taxes). Under G.M.'s cost-accounting system, they are the key indicator of worth of divisional management, worth of product, personnel policy and planning...
Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) is the dealer for Schwiefka's poker game, and a very good dealer he is, with "an arm of pure gold," an eye like an ice pick, and a nylon line that pays out smooth and hauls the suckers in. But Frankie is a man who carries "a 40-lb. monkey on [his] back," and the only way to knock the monkey off is to get a shot of joy in the main vein. He kicks the habit when he does a stretch in stir, and swears off cards, too, when he comes...