Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standard of living cannot be raised rapidly. There are differences between the customs and ways of life of the Chinese people and the European and American people . . . the language difficulties . . . the marriage problem." Red China, adopting conciliatory tactics alongside the Russians beneath the low eaves of Western pressure, smoothly wished its five newest defectors "a smooth future...
...Tory victory was largely a personal triumph for Premier Leslie Frost, 59. A genial small-town lawyer from Lindsay, Ont. (pop. 9,603). Frost took over the premiership in 1949 and steadily built up the Tory vote by running a smooth, prosperous administration. One of his first moves was to settle a long taxation feud between the Ontario and federal governments. Frost tried no spectacular political experiments, but he kept taxes low, increased welfare grants, ran his cabinet so efficiently that hardly a hint of discord ever was heard outside the caucus room...
sprays on-over colors and chrome . . . into door moldings and "inaccessible" areas . . . protects from bumper to bumper. Salt air and moisture can't penetrate-dust and grime slide off its glass-smooth surface...
...turbulent bird's-eye view of Quito (see color page). More often it swoops down for an agonizingly close look at a funeral, a prison, a prostitute. His occasional canvases of embracing lovers or mothers with their children show a growing tenderness and ability to convey the smooth with the rough. If Guayasamin's incisive drawing, muddy but emotive color and exuberant sense of design are some day united in the service of a more positive view of man and the world around him, he will be remembered far beyond Ecuador...
Louisa Foulk provides what is in many ways the best story in the issue. Her characterization of a society mother is perceptive and her narrative smooth. Her ending is stimulating and highly successful when compared with the anti-climactic dribblings-off in both of the other stories...