Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smooth out relations between himself and the Police Department, Stokes appointed as Safety Director retired General Benjamin O. Davis, the highest ranking black in the Air Force. Davis proved to be one of the few law-and-order blacks in the country, and constantly sided with the police. Six months later he resigned, charging that Stokes and his Administration had given aid and support to "enemies of law enforcement." When pressed, Davis produced a list containing the names of several black militants and black organizations. He also fingered the weekly newspaper of the black community which had committed the grievous...
Still Wary. In Chile, as elsewhere in Latin America, Castro seems a trifle outmoded. His heavy dependence on the Russians has won him no admirers, and his Sierra Maestra style is considered anachronistic by those who follow the smooth urban guerrillas of Uruguay and the business-suited Marxists of Allende's Chile. Even so, he is gaining ground; Peru may soon become the second Latin American country to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. Chile did so a year ago, Mexico has maintained relations with Havana all along, and Argentina and Venezuela may follow. The result could...
...here in New Haven, Harvard men were doing allegedly the most important thing they would ever do in their lives, and they were doing it perfectly. The Restic system, which had not yet been executed as well as the Crimson would have liked, was reaching fruition. Offensively, Harvard was smooth and powerful. On defense, it was aggressive and grudging. It was an extremely satisfying exhibition of what is a revolutionary philosophy of football at Cambridge. And best of all, quarterback Eric Crone '73, stayed out of his own end zone...
Every summer day thousands of high school kids pass under these ramps on the way to the beach, locked into the smooth turn of the freeway by the sound of their AM radios. In the afternoon they return with sand on the carpeting and the radio still playing...
...city's ethnic population, especially Italian Americans. But he also got 25% of the black vote, even though black leaders had denounced him as a racist. It was a sign that some blacks are as worried about crime as whites. His Republican opponent, Thacher Longstreth, ran a smooth campaign, but he was unable to stop the tide of Republican crossovers who liked the image of the tough, honest, single-minded...