Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third quarter breezed by with the Radcliffe five content to hold themselves to sophisticated offensive fast-break rushes and gutsy defense. The large lead allowed Williams to demonstrate her back-handed layups and other smooth athletic pyrotechnics, and gave Radcliffe basketball coach John McCarthy a chance to show off his unusual offense composed of two wings, two centers, and one guard...
...ranking Radcliffe player Ruth Stevens and Wellesley's Genie Ware played a very tight, smooth match, which fell to Ware, 15-13, 15-2, 15-11. Ware won the intercollegiate nationals last year...
...devoted his entire life to the company and to the search for his room at the top, sacrificing most of the pleasures of family and leisure along the way. McMullen picks him up a few months before retirement, as he undertakes his last major task for Phillips: making smooth the transfer of power to his hand-picked successor, William Martin...
...wash. She loads her burro with plastic bags full of clothes, in case it rains early, and sets off across the fields with her nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. She re-does your wash after your inadequate job and then her clothes and yours join the bright pattern on the smooth rocks. The little children make a game of washing, and romp through their day's work. The babies are strapped to the nearest tree in home-made hammocks of blanket and rope, safe from stray snakes or spiders...
...find Don Leonardo finishing his new house. He covers the adobe with a mixture of sand and lime, making the walls white and smooth. The doors and windows are trimmed in bright blue. You ask him, as president of the town, what he thinks of the Mexican government. Smiling, he shrugs his shoulders. "Well, Senorita, Echeverria--he is not a bad man; but he does nothing for the campesino. The rich men have money and they pay him and, well--so he can afford to do nothing...