Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horses approached the crowd on their way to the starting gate and broke into a canter. Overhead, a plane was advertising for the dog races-"Change Your Luck; Raynham Opens Tonite." The track was smooth and brown and neatly furrowed. I looked at the big board. The crowd was betting the favorite. The odds were 7-5 on Great Mystery...
Cortes Finds Gold. The smooth-talking son of a financial consultant to Latin American governments, Randell started his company in 1964 by publishing a summer-employment guide for students. Working from a base in Washington, D.C., he built up a network of 700 campus representatives to sell magazine subscriptions. By 1966, Randell had gone mod and was promoting computer-matched dating and half-fare cards for American Airlines. Other gimmicks that he and his campus representatives pushed included the outrageous and the plain corny: a pillow for sit-in demonstrators featuring a pocket containing No Doz pills to keep...
...Hillel House, and a friend who was cager to meet Singer, I realized why the author seemed so familiar. I.B. Singer looks like anybody's grandfather. His white, parchment-like skin stretched tightly over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence, an awareness of the constant surprise of life...
...Cambridge Red Cross is supervising Harvard's annual Spring blood drive, which will last through Friday, April 10. Twelve nurses, a doctor, and dozens of volunteers were on hand to make the blood-giving procedure as smooth-flowing as possible...
...ghettos, as in the suburbs, live many men whose dreams of independence and achievement cannot be satisfied by working for someone else. They are not inspired by the Nixon Administration's slogan of "black capitalism," which they dismiss as smooth honky talk. To them, the words stand for a plethora of unimaginative federal programs that have been long on promises and red tape, short on loans and management-training programs that would help to create real wealth in the hands of Negroes...