Word: smoothly
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TOKYO: President Clinton Sunday began a week-long trip to South Korea, Japan and Russia. Defense Secretary William Perry helped smooth the way for the President's trip to Japan with the announcement Sunday that the U.S. military would return to Okinawa 20 percent of the land it uses on the island. "At this point, this is announcement has been well-received," says TIME's Irene Kunii. "Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota himself said it was a welcome development." The rape of an Okinawan girl by U.S. servicemen served to galvanize residents already fed up with the noise and inconvenience...
JACK E. WHITE, a TIME national correspondent and columnist, first met Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown about 20 years ago, when Brown was working for the National Urban League. "He was very smooth and very, very savvy," says White. "You knew even then he was going to end up someplace important." The two stayed in touch. "I last saw him at a Christmas party," he says. "He talked to my wife, and he gave her the impression that we were a lot tighter than we were. He made people feel he valued their friendship." White had the sad task...
TOKYO: President Clinton Sunday began a week-long trip to South Korea, Japan and Russia. Defense Secretary William Perry helped smooth the way for the President's trip to Japan with the announcement Sunday that the U.S. military would return to Okinawa 20 percent of the land it uses on the island. "At this point, this is announcement has been well-received," says TIME's Irene Kunii. "Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota himself said it was a welcome development." The rape of an Okinawan girl by U.S. servicemen served to galvanize residents already fed up with the noise and inconvenience...
...wanted to dance with him, and I asked," said Mellody R. Hayes '99. "He did some tricky moves that I had to catch up with. I like dancing with him. He was smooth on his feet...
...SWIFT IS THE KIND OF COP who doesn't have to worry about pockmarks. Unlike the physically imperfect lawmen who now populate prime-time TV--the Dennis Franzes and Jerry Orbachs--Mac's skin is invincibly smooth. Nothing, it seems, can scar him as he dodges punches and pummels bat-wielding thugs with an assured agility that seems to say, "Hey, I'd look even better toppling Christy Turlington on a sandbar in Maui." Happily for Mac, his appearance isn't all he has going for him. Smart enough to have developed an immensely profitable software program, this New York...