Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first place, the wind picked up. The Crimson started badly, however, and only began to pass boats when Butler cut across a strong mid-bay current to take advantage of milder water on the other side. On the last downwind leg, expert spinnaker work by Ken Burnes and smooth coordination by assistant helms-man Bill Cabeen helped the Harvard yawl catch both U.S.C. and Wayne State. The Crimson won by four and one-half minutes...
...everyone in that room run out and vote for him." He did slip once, though, when he told his visitors, all but one of them Negroes, how upset he had been at reports that his highway patrol had recently mistreated a couple of "niggers." Otherwise Wallace was as smooth and strong as bonded bourbon. He even gave the delegates autographed portraits of himself...
...miles in diameter, grew immensely. A new picture appeared every five seconds; the famous rills (cracks visible to astronomers on earth) stood out more plainly than ever. New rills appeared, some of them with little craters strung along them like beads. Between them, the floor of Alphonsus, which looks smooth from the distant earth, turned out to be spotted with craters, some single, others in lines, a few showing dark halos...
...under their armpits, to be housed in the hostels of the gold mines. They looked like prisoners to me. I resented them because I felt a responsibility towards them and I was doing nothing about it. They spoiled my image of Johannesburg as the throbbing giant which threw up smooth gangsters, brave politicians and intellectuals who challenged white authority...
...Russia: a 3-1 victory over previously unbeaten Czechoslovakia, thereby clinching the world amateur ice hockey championship; in Tampere, Finland. Content to protect a 2-0 first-period lead, the smooth-skating Russians kept one man back on defense for the rest of the game, coasted to their sixth victory without a loss. The outclassed U.S. team, which had lost five straight, finally managed a 4-0 victory over Good Host Finland...