Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stiffness of the one-piece body. "It's a good sled," one member of their team said last week, and then added, with a grin, "when it stays on the track." The cigarskis did stay on the track in practice. They are so speedy on the smooth curves of new artificial tracks, like the one at Sarajevo, that one official of the International Bobsled and Tobogganing Federation thought they had won the technological war. "The Soviets have taken an exciting sport and turned it into an icy gray science," he said...
Gideonse adds that relations between students and prisoners have been smooth and professional, with the exception of a few instances where female participants encountered sexual tensions...
...from the free-throw line, as was junior Kyle Standley, who was 1-for-4 with six points. And while they didn't make it onto the scoreboard. Ben Danielson and John Simbeck made it onto the court, as did freshman Bob Dougherty, who pitched in some smooth ball handling...
There is nothing wrong with a calm, comfy, Cadillac-smooth ride. But at times President Reagan glides along altogether too smoothly, virtually unaware of the gritty, often bumpy policymaking processes of his Administration. His lapses are more than a forgivable matter of mixing up history at a press conference or misrepresenting a trivial budget figure now and again. Reagan is remarkably disengaged from the substance of his job. His aides no longer dismiss as glib the theory that Reagan has a movie-star approach to governing. "In Reagan's mind," says a White House adviser, "somebody does the lighting...
True, the carefully manicured haircut has gone from black to white, and the jaunty gait has lost some of its bounce, but the chiseled good looks and the smooth-as-silk charm are as timeless as a well-tailored tuxedo. His last movie, Walk, Don't Run, was released in 1966, but Cary Grant, who turned 80 last week, has never lost his Hollywood gloss-or his penchant for privacy. In an effort to keep his birthday "as low key as possible," the actor, born in England as Archie Leach, celebrated by staying home with his wife Barbara...