Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands tall, coffee-colored, Ruffian has enormous dimensions, particularly for a filly. At age two her girth already measured 75½ in. (1½ in. more than Secretariat's at that age). Her hindquarters are huge, and she puts them to good use. Ruffian runs with a smooth, gliding stride, and no sign of strain. "She fools you because she runs so smooth and easy," says Panamanian Jockey Jacinto Vasquez, who also rides Foolish Pleasure. Says Trainer Frank Whiteley Jr., "Her speed scares the hell...
...thumbs whenever some drunkard passed us, hoping to get a ride back to the University of Nevada. We were getting close to town when a Mustang glided up out of the dark on the other side of the road, went about 20 yards past us and then made a smooth eerie U-turn and slid up right along side...
...looked like the aftermath of a Three Stooges pie-throwing party. The sun was making headway against all the stickiness, washing it smooth with the pale glow of pink lemonade. You hardly notice skies around Cambridge: all spring means is that you pick your eyes up from the slush and mud puddles and occasional faces where they've rested all winter, and look at the trees now and then. But when you're on a ship in the South Atlantic the sky makes your whole world because it blends with the sea out there at infinity. You become...
...Because of Luanda's location on a point of land, with an island sheltering the bay, you see sunrises over the bay and sunsets over the ocean. And they're always beautiful. At sunrise on the ship's last morning in Luanda, the water in the bay shimmered like smooth aluminum foil watercolored pink and orange. But the source of the shimmer was soon painfully evident: an oil film, produced by the anchored ships, spread over the entire...
Despite the Crimson's strong morning showing, there was considerable chatter circulating among the 3500 alligator-shirt-garbed spectators about bumping off the smooth sailing Harvardians. The crowd was full of old oarsmen who had come out of their shells for the sprints, and the rowers' reunion was filled with nostalgia and projections on the upcoming races...