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Word: smoothly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member, after a cross-country flight, said the landing was so smooth that she did not even notice it. One can speculate that this was due to a combination of the pilots' professionalism and the conclusion of one hell of a five-hour party...

Author: By Sarah K. Lynch, | Title: Flying High on Air Freelandia | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

Radcliffe's number one, Ruth Stevens, found Princeton's Wendy Zaharko a deservedly formidable opponent. Stevens kept a cool head and delivered some well-placed rail shots, but fell in three smooth games, 15-3, 15-3, 15-7, to Zaharko's razor-sharp accuracy and powerful hits. Zaharko won the women's national intercollegiate championship...

Author: By Ellen B. Fair, | Title: Tigers Blank Cliffe Squash Team, 7-0 | 2/19/1974 | See Source »

Vavricka dropped in 15 points for the night and Steurer, a sophomore guard, finished with 16. Steurer, a super-smooth ballhandler and floor leader for the Tigers, shot 8-14 from the floor and took up the slack caused by the loss of classmate Armond Hill. Hill, a backcourt superstar, was recently declared academically ineligible for the remainder of the season...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Tigers Topple Crimson Cagers, 65-53 | 2/19/1974 | See Source »

...this vein, Sanders has obviously preferred to concentrate on getting the right five to worrying about the next team on the schedule. Smooth the rough edges rather than radically alter the game plan. But such a tactic assumes a certain amount of arrogance, even if it seems perhaps a natural law to a former Celtic. For if you don't adjust, you have to make 'em play your brand of basketball. And if there is one thing Harvard has not been able to do for 40 minutes to date, it is make their opponents play their brand, Cambridge variety...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: View From the Attic | 2/19/1974 | See Source »

...noise in the brush by the stone staircase and there was Francois. His pants were wet to the knees and there was a crusty line of sand up the front of his jacket. He looked frightened, but his eyes shone. He pulled from his pocket a handful of round, smooth stones from the beach. "Bombs!" he said. "I went to the beach and got bombs Le Bon Dieu will hurl these at them and kill them, and then put them in a volcano...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Bombs and Le Bon Dieu | 2/16/1974 | See Source »

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