Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the campaign officially opened in the summer of 1970, Carter's contacts and grass-roots identification helped him put together a smooth political machine. To get elected, it was necessary to make some gestures toward the past: he opposed busing, visited a private segregated academy and said he would welcome meetings with George Wallace. He also appealed to the ever-potent populist instincts of the state by promising to oppose Establishment power brokers and big money interests. He beat former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic runoff and went on to a 200,000-vote victory over the Republican...
...proposal would tend to introduce dissident elements into what is a smooth-running operation," Bennett added. "I think the system they recommended is ridiculous...
...slang term for heroin) is a relentless portrait of three junkies who shoot up in front of the camera and drift off into their heroin fantasies of incoherent hostility and depression. Before they do, Skezag records a long conversation between Film Makers Joel Freedman and Philip Messina and a smooth-talking hustler named Wayne, who claims that he is not really addicted. Two friends of his eventually enter the claustrophobic scene: Sonny, quiet and morose, and Angel, who talks a political line. Casually and inevitably they all take heroin. Returning to the ghetto, they realize anew they have gone nowhere...
...from the eyes quite short of heaven a small chapel in a home a fragment of fourteenth-century Scottish stained glass leaning against a window-beyond, a dry river, trees and rising hills, crucifix a carved root still part of the dry earth, a candle always on a large smooth stone, flat as a simple altar blind Homer, poet liking water and consequent seas...
After narrowly escaping elimination in its morning preliminary, Navy's smooth stroking heavyweight crew came back in Saturday's Eastern Sprint finals to capture the title with a three-quarters length victory over a surprisingly strong Rutgers eight...