Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indiana: Familiar as a witty speaker on the state's banquet circuit, Democrat Roger Branigin, 62, a prosperous Lafayette lawyer, is little known to voters in general, trails Republican Richard Ristine, 44, the state's smooth-working Lieutenant Governor...
...hours after the polls closed and got ready to lead Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition-a job he says "will be comparatively easy." He added, with a characteristic mixture of éclat and cliché: "I enjoyed being Prime Minister, but one must take the rough with the smooth." Harold Wilson appeared equally determined to enjoy his sojourn as Prime Minister. Despite the narrowness of his victory, Wilson insisted that Labor has a mandate to make "many changes." He added: "We intend to fulfill that mandate, and we are concerned to ensure that there should be a true partnership...
...Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth...
...labor leaders go, Walter Reuther and Thomas Gleason are about as different as possible: one the smooth, articulate head of the tightly organized auto workers' union, the other the abrasive president of the rebellious and racket-tainted longshoremen. But both Reuther and Gleason insist on the importance of those vexatious laws of the laborer's life, the work rules...
...horizon defined by trees (see opposite page). Only the high, spare bell tower-two planes joined by minimal struts-provides collegiate symbolism. Inside the grounds the pattern is yellow-beige brick (Jacobsen had several walls knocked down and laid again), sweeps of floor-to-ceiling glass and marble-smooth concrete beams-all interspersed with gardens, courts and a reflecting pool. The quadrangle is a rond-point of greensward offering a single, artfully off-centered tree...