Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Independent Paul Reynaud. 84, last prewar Premier and formerly a supporter of Charles de Gaulle, was badly beaten by De Gaulle's hand-picked candidate. Resistance Hero Jules Houcke, 64. who did not even make a single public campaign speech. Former Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, who commands a smooth local machine as longtime mayor of Arras, ran 1,200 votes behind a little-known Gaullist. In Normandy, former Radical Premier Pierre Mendés-France, 55, dour Cassandra of the intellectual left, was hopelessly outdistanced by urbane Jean de Broglie. 41, De Gaulle's civil service chief. From...
...straight sour mash. When purist critics seek an example of everything that is corrupt about folk singing, they always pick on the hapless Kingstons. First off, the trio has made as much as $30,000 a week, and this is unforgivably crude. Next, they smooth down, harmonize, and slicken the lyrics, embellishing the whole with gimcrack corn. But, carping aside, the Kingstons are accomplished entertainers, and many of their critics, Johnny-come-latelies to purity, forget that they probably would never have heard of folk music if they had not been first attracted by a heel-stomping ditty rendered...
About 20 years old, Herbert is approximately 5 ft. 10 in, tall and has a medium build. He has a smooth shave, short cut, and fur-trimmed army surplus parka. He wears green trousers and a dark, turtle-neck sweater. According to Albert Tonis, University police chief and security officer, Herbert "is well spoken" and "may possibly be from the West Indies...
...Boston's own Herb Pomeroy: not that there's anything wrong with Jones and Pomeroy, but the "quiet cook" tempo they both favor quickly grows wearing, and the band's ensemble work on such tunes as Aluminum Baby and Quince was ragged and lugubrious (though the reeds were quite smooth). Moreover, the brass insisted on substituting bastard-Armstrong vibrato for clean attack, and the solos were badly phrased and unimaginative...
...smooth the way for its bold recommendation, the Common Market Commission proposes that changes come gradually. But the informed betting in Brussels is that the Common Market will make the first steps toward a unified business tax structure within the next year...