Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason Judy Benjamin finds herself in this unlikely situation is that she has joined the Army under the delusion, fostered by a smooth-talking recruiter, that basic training will be something like "six weeks at La Costa." This, she believes, will help her recover from the grief of husband No. 2's death as well as give her the independence and gumption she has not acquired in her life as a certified Jewish American princess. It is hard to believe that a woman of 28, no matter how dippy, would think that yachting is an activity much pursued even...
...task force urged that the university implement periodic self-reviews to remain aware of women's changing needs, sponsor programs to increase undergraduate contact with women scholars--including a special program of visiting women professors--and sponsor counseling services to smooth women's adjustment to Brown and the outside world...
...foreign phrases somewhat awkwardly; these are strange lines to recite, and would benefit from a touch less caricature, a touch more natural ease. But both, along with their fellow committee members--played by Nick D' Arienzo, Anne Troy, and Tom Blumenfeld--quickly achieve a nice pace and a smooth ensemble, broken only infrequently by mistimed punchlines or fumbled bits of business with the many panties cluttering the stage...
...renovation process has not been entirely smooth. Lodge said that last week an enormous painted mural flapped down from the lobby ceiling, which is nearly six stories high...
...more than 320 km (200 miles) in diameter and 80,000 km (50,000 miles) above its clouds. The scientists also reported puzzling complexities-apparently less dense regions-in the planet's ring system; the varying speeds of material traveling in different portions of the rings should presumably smooth out such features, but somehow they survive for hours at a time. Finally, the scientists confirmed the existence of three other moons, which had been only tentatively identified from earlier observations. Two of them are traveling in the same orbit and seem to be edging ever closer, but probably will...