Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small. Too smooth." Then again...
Hart was leery at first about Caddell, since the aggressive pollster tends to dominate a campaign. But so far the partnership has been smooth. Arguing that Hart was "too boring and issue-oriented," Caddell persuaded him to give his message a "populist tinge...
...dispatched scores of M.P.s to campaign for Benn, but Party Leader Neil Kinnock must have been of two minds about the Benn candidacy. Labor could not afford to lose in Chesterfield, a party stronghold for nearly 50 years. But Kinnock has worked hard during the past five months to smooth over the left-right split in the party, and Benn's return to the Commons might jeopardize that achievement. In the end, the result was probably just what Kinnock needed: a Labor victory, but narrow enough to keep Benn from claiming a mandate for left-wing insurrection...
...Marine check point on the airport highway about a quarter of a mile from the compound's main gate; the Amal has set up a similar unit about 200 yards down the road. The leathernecks regularly converse with the miltiamen in an effort to keep relations smooth. One sore point arose over the Marines' use of German shepards trained to sniff out explosives carried by passing cars and their occupants. Dogs, explained the Amal, are considered unclean by Muslims. "We told the militiamen we would use the dogs just to check vehicles," says a Marine officer. "They seemed...
...required 800-meter drop. He dropped into a textbook aerodynamic tuck, fists together in front of his face, helmet down, back parallel to the ground. "I've been winning most of the top sections," he said later, referring to unofficial split times, "so I was real smooth the first three or four turns. Then I came to the fallaway right-hander that's been giving me trouble all week. I came through at real good speed, and I just put my head down and said, 'It's a motorway from here on down ...' " That evening...