Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effective track record, if it focuses more on real economic issues rather than simple idealism, Harvard may have a tough fight on its hands. Having shifted their efforts from the predictable atmosphere of the courtroom to the more uncertain electoral arena, Steiner and Co. can no longer plan on smooth legal sailing...
...women once inhabited. Auchincloss also occasionally mires himself in melodramatic ramblings that he evidently perceives as powerful prose ("Orgasm with David was like the raising of a communion cup before an altar that knew no sacrament but love.") but these indulgent tirades are only sporadic; Auchincloss is generally a smooth and vivid writer...
Metal rides are smooth and quiet. They are also laced with corkscrew turns and, in some instances, huge loops. The supporting structure is made entirely of steel, and the vehicles resemble space shuttles, not carny cars. On the convoluted tracks of the metal coasters, the question is quite basic: Where...
Which rides are better? As in all things, it is a matter of taste. Loops and corkscrews probably offer the rawest thrills-unadorned, mind-bending, stomach-stretching terror. Sans a 360° turnover, however, metal coasters are somewhat tame-too quiet and too smooth, and lacking the wooden coaster's capacity to engage the eye and the ear. Riding a wooden roller coaster is like barnstorming in a biplane; a trip in a metal coaster is like flying to Cleveland in a jumbo jet. Both will take you where you want to go-a little bit out of your...
...statistics earned the admissions office a great deal of praise from everyone for its smooth implementation of the sex-blind equalaccess policy adopted by the College two years...