Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighbors, James A. Carr seemed a solid citizen. He was the smooth-talking president of Boston-based Lloyd, Carr & Co., which billed itself as the nation's largest firm in the arcane field of commodity options, and in less than two years had spawned twelve offices, reaching west to San Francisco. He lived in a $200,000 harborside house, drove his wife and three daughters around in a Rolls-Royce, and gave sage interviews to Boston newspapers. Last week he appeared to have also been the author of one of the biggest frauds to surface in years...
...freedom includes the right to drive over rutted roads in a pickup truck with a Winchester racked in the rear window, a bottle under the seat and a horse trailer bouncing along behind. Henry also knows that if he and his buddies get a little wild, his honcho will smooth things out with...
...until the next day are we assured that it will be possible to cross into Burma in the company of a courier of the Karenni forces. The courier, when he appears, is smiling. On his left hand, set in a ring of soft orange gold, is a large, smooth, deep-green stone of jade...
...production, a sensation that can be confirmed by the woman's examining finger. This is the first "safe" period. Within a few days, as the estrogen levels rise, the mucus feels tacky and appears cloudy and the fertile period begins. Then, at the estrogen peak, the mucus becomes smooth, slippery and stretchable like raw egg white. This condition-which occurs within 24 hours or so of ovulation-usually lasts one to two days and signals maximum fertility. Three days after the mucus becomes cloudy and sticky again, the second safe interval begins, sometimes continuing through another dry cycle before...
...angrier than the soft rock that spun out of Southern California onto the record charts this year, and Costello sings them with a prophet's urgency. In the light of his sizzling reception on a just completed U.S. tour, the message seems clear: rock may still be smooth and sophisticated at the top, but it is getting good and rough again down below...