Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Qili was recruited for the league's secretariat while a student at Peking University. ! There he attracted the attention of Hu Yaobang. Hu Qili is now the General Secretary's protege and, according to Politburo Member Peng Zhen, the likely successor. Hu Qili is described as a smooth and charismatic man. "He is what we call both Red and expert," says a middle-level party cadre. "He has good party credentials and is an intellectual...
...smooth the transition, Janeway has tried to rely on Winship's lieutenants, some of whom had been Janeway's rivals for the top job. But Managing Editor Matthew Storin, who ran the day-to-day operations during Winship's last year, yielded his authority reluctantly. In June, Janeway sounded out Storin about becoming Washington bureau chief. Instead, the well- regarded Storin resigned...
...Soviets were once clumsy and loutish as salesmen. When Nikita Khrushchev wanted to make a point at the United Nations in 1960, he took off his shoe and waved it. Mikhail Gorbachev, by contrast, is a walking advertisement for a different Soviet way of doing things. He is a smooth performer in public and a skillful articulator of the Kremlin line. Like the new man in charge, Soviet propaganda has become subtler and more adroit. A recent example: the slick 56- page pamphlet "Star Wars: Delusions and Dangers" that appeared last month throughout Washington and European capitals, translated into English...
...bought a Bible the next day. After graduating from a Missouri Bible college as an ordained Baptist minister, he started the Thomas Road Church in Lynchburg and began to broadcast his services on radio. Within a year his membership jumped from 35 to nearly a thousand. Falwell was a smooth storyteller and his blunt, biting tongue gave his Fundamentalist listeners a new sense of confidence. He thundered against adultery, drinking and premarital sex. He built his church audience with a series of stunts, importing Christian karate experts to smash blocks of ice in front of the congregation and exhibiting...
...melodies on Little Creatures, released a couple of months ago and cruising into the upper regions of the charts, are all smooth sailing. Eric Weissberg, of Dueling Banjos fame, even puts in a guest appearance, playing a steel guitar on Creatures of Love that makes it sound like an Eagles tune. There is a Cajun accordion on Road to Nowhere and enough unashamed tunesmithing all around to set toes to tapping and get the Top 40 a little loosened...