Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid all this unbridled joy one Piston rose above all my other idols. M.L. Carr, Detroit's smooth small forward, was the kind of player who could burn an opposing team all night and then walk off the court joking with his foes...
...many balls into the tin, and he's completely fed up. No way is this arrogant, snotty kid going to beat him. He screws up his forehead in fury, his eyes flame, his face turns beet red. Not particularly fast, he somehow starts to run down every shot. Not smooth or aesthetically appealing to watch, he somehow knocks shots just out of Benello's reach. By the time Reese has racked up the next three games, his opponent has fled the court and charged through the crowd of spectators with a loud "shit." He was sure he had lost...
...complicated as the U.S.'s, in which people fund with everything from credit cards to money market mutual fund checks, the central bank no longer has tools sophisticated enough to measure money, let alone control its growth. Others argue that the Fed does indeed have the tools to smooth out money growth, but refuses to use them...
...anniversary of the Actors' Fund, a showfolks' charity created in 1882 by such stalwarts as P.T Barnum and Edwin Booth, and raise money to build a nursing facility next to the Actors' Fund home in Englewood, N.J. The first 90 minutes of the show were a smooth arc of excitement and unapologetic razzle-dazzle: a lyric Try to Remember by Harry Belafonte, a monologue delivered at giddy white heat by Robin Williams ("What excitement backstage-everyone's standing around in little pools of Perrier"), a dingbat piano solo by Dudley Moore, and film clips of such...
Only Geordie Lemmon broke the pattern significantly, needing five games (9-15, 12-15, 15-12, 15-12, 15-9) to overcome smooth Sidney Tyson...