Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touch of green remains here, five miles from the top of the 10,308-foot mountain which the Balinese believe is the seat of the gods. Trees are stripped of their leaves. Branches are caked white with volcanic dust. The lovely terrace rice paddles lie under a smooth gray surface of brimstone...
...trading during the winter recess, and with good reason: he has a well-balanced young ball team that could bring home a pennant any year now. His infield, a question mark last year because of its youth, has had a year to work together and they move with smooth precision...
...small air force or even the officer corps of its regular army. If it comes to fighting, the Saudi rulers will depend on their "white army," the Bedouin tribesmen traditionally loyal to the King. But if the road ahead looks rough for the monarchies, it by no means is smooth for the "liberated" states, since victory most often presents only new occasions for quarrels, in keeping with the Arab proverb that says, "I and my brother against my cousin; I and my cousin against the foreigner...
...times that of Earth. Its dry, unbreathable air contains perhaps 10% carbon dioxide (v. .03% for Earth) and probably a little nitrogen. The clouds are so dense that the surface is probably dark. Radar waves bounced off Venus indicate rather uncertainly that there may be both mountains and smooth places, as on the earth...
...works out in their relations with Hilda, who is not just another dim blonde, but America herself. She has the "egg-smooth non-face of America," a soap-opera vocabulary ("I have no me inside"), and she is a tease: "I want you to want me though I have no intention of satisfying you." Finally, neither husband nor lover is the father of her unborn child; the real father, a former husband, died a few minutes after the conception. She stepped over his body and left the scene. In other words, she is "The Enemy" (of U.S. man), and identified...