Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent for talking like a college professor, Gibbons, 53, teamed up with Hoffa in 1948, by brains and brawling turned his St. Louis local into a key link in Hoffa's chain, became a leader of the Teamsters' powerful Central States Conferences. He worked tirelessly to smooth over the trail of disputes Hoffa left behind him, served as Hoffa's top propagandist, eventually was named Hoffa's executive assistant in Washington...
...Schatzkammer's most ostentatious piece, an equestrian statue of the knight St. George, has 2,291 diamonds, 406 rubies and 209 pearls-and an artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop of the knight's crystal blade pulls the composition together, drawing attention to the writhing dragon underfoot-a creature all the more monstrous for its emerald scales and egg-sized ruby warts...
Renewed Promise. The optimism came from far more than faith in Lyndon Johnson's smooth transition: it was backed by some pretty impressive figures. Last week steel output rose for the sixth week in a row, and automakers scheduled record production for the month. Manufacturers' new orders in October rose to their highest level in five months ($35.3 billion) and construction in the first ten months jumped 10% ahead of last year. Buoyed by renewed promise of a tax cut early next year, the stock market momentarily broke through to a new high...
...backers of a small restaurant in Beverly Hills called The Bistro, and together they hold court there. Harvey likes to sit facing the walls-they are all made of mirrors. Thus his eyes, narrow as oriental slits, can see everybody who's there, including himself, and he can smooth his light brown hair without going into Joan's purse for a compact...
...varsity's easy triumph over the Maroons may be the last smooth sailing for the mermen in a long time. December 14 they travel to Annapolis to meet Navy's midshipmen. Four days later they face the cadets from West Point. Both meets should provide real tests for the team, as Army and Navy are perennially rated among the top in the East...