Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while the shift from words to action has been anything but smooth, this fall's implementation of the school's dramatically new curriculum for first-year students signals that Harvard Medical School might just be in the process of bringing off the impossible...
...trouble began on Friday, only minutes after the end of midday prayer services. In 115 degrees heat, a white-robed sea of penitents swarmed around the Sacred Mosque, where the devout come to touch the Black Stone, a meteorite inside the shrine that millions of pilgrims have worn smooth over the centuries in the belief that it will absolve them of sin. Suddenly the worshipers' hymns and shouts of Allahu-Akhbar! (God is great) were drowned out. Crying "Death to America! Death to the Soviet Union! Death to Israel!," ragged lines of Iranian demonstrators began weaving through the crowds. Many...
...estimated 2.1 million pilgrims, known as hajjis, moved in a smooth procession yesterday in groups of 100,000 to the Plain of Arafat six miles from Mecca...
...military personnel are attached to the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, Washington's military headquarters and prime listening post for Latin America. From SOUTHCOM, the U.S. can dispatch spy planes to overfly Nicaragua, monitor sensitive communications and military movements in the region and ensure the canal's smooth operation. As Panama's former intelligence chief, Noriega has ( also worked intimately with the Central Intelligence Agency. Says a State Department official: "The general figures his work with the agency is his insurance...
Angolan officials described his release as a "goodwill gesture," presumably to smooth the way to the establishment of diplomatic relations with the U.S. That is a difficult goal, given the presence of 35,000 Cuban troops in Angola and the $15 million in military aid the U.S. provides to UNITA, a pro-Western rebel group trying to overthrow Angola's Marxist government...