Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game with both the first and second lines getting off two excellent pairs of shots on Puchkov, who had spent most of the evening scraping the ice and examining the tape on his stick. The Soviet goalie proved himself to be at least the equal of his smooth-working teammates by turning away three shots which seemed certain goals...
...press of a button, the wife of the U.S. ambassador started the fountains going, and one by one, led by Prime Minister Nehru and his daughter Indira, the distinguished guests made their way by the dancing water. They mounted the great marble steps, crossed the terrace paved with smooth white pebbles from the banks of the Ganges, passed beyond a series of slender golden columns, and disappeared behind the great golden-studded white screen. Then came the inspection of the air-conditioned offices with their doors of teak, the elaborate servants' quarters, the great aluminum shade through which...
...Human Gastric Function (updated in 1947). They had investigated not only the stoma and stomach but, by the psychosomatic approach, the whole man. They showed that Tom's stomach, when he was at ease, was pale pink and relaxed, with many convoluted folds, but bright red, smooth and tense when he became angry. Fright turned both Tom's face and his stomach pale. By shutting off the flow of gastric juices, depression made his stomach almost incapable of digesting food. Anxiety was the most stomach-damaging emotion, clearly linked with the formation of ulcers...
...blueberries lie in a patch of ground belonging to some city people. Two resourceful farmers, who like blueberries quite a bit, become rivals for the patch and expend considerable effort in attempts to acquire the blueberries. Means writes with economy in this piece, and he never lets his smooth style get away from him. It's funny. Wernick's story also is amusing, perhaps extraneous at times, but on the whole a dryly wise comment on how life she is lived in the U.S.A., where we learn love is a faith and marriage a chapel. "Birthday Letter" finds Allen Grossman...
HIBBING, Minn., Jan. 4--Russia's 34-year-old captain scored three times today and the velvet-smooth Soviet hockey team smothered Uncle Sam's best amateurs, 7-1, 24 hours after whipping the Americans in Minneapolis...