Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot on which Shaw hangs his message is fairly simple. The Patient, a whining invalid stifled by her mother's overweening care, allows herself to be kidnapped by her sexy new "nurse" and a smooth-talking preacher-turned-burglar, named, respectively, Sweetie and Popsy. The three set out in quest of "real life" and a good time, taking up residence near a British imperial outpost in some unidentified desert land. The Patient's mother eventually catches up with them but fails to recognize her daughter now disguised as a native servant girl and glowing with health...
Baltimore, with Hurler Jim Palmer injured much of the season, has stayed close to first on the strength of Brooks Robinson's bat and the healthy arms of Pitchers Mike Cuellar and Ross Grimsley. Says smooth-fielding Second Baseman Bobby Grich: "If we're close and we have Palmer...
Watson appointed two student advisory bodies to help smooth out some of the confusions in the new relationship. The Undergraduate Athletics Council, a committee of three women athletes and three men athletes, and all Radcliffe and Harvard captains met regularly with Watson throughout the year...
Although it is the largest single landowner and the richest locally-based corporation in town, Harvard tries for the most part to keep out of Cambridge's official affairs. All the University's land is, under state law, tax-exempt, but to keep town-gown relations smooth Harvard pays the city about $500,000 a year in in-lieu-of-tax payments. And whenever and wherever the name of Harvard is likely to be mentioned in public, the University sends a representative from its Office of Government and Community Affairs to sit quietly in the back of the room...
...Yard, drawing to it all possessors of a sensitive nose. I, for one, fondle books almost as tenderly as I do women, and in these hours I wander up and down the Coop's aisles, my fingers get a good workout. The silkiness of untouched pages, the uncreased bindings smooth like a pond on a summer's day, the rugged smell of newsprint only shortly removed from the presses, all make for an experience sensual in its own perverse way. At times, when I feel certain no one is looking, I lift an open text to my face and inhale...