Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to lay the facts before you -the rough with the smooth," said President Eisenhower. "Some of these security facts are reassuring; others are not-they are sternly demanding...
...There it was, against the fireplace, and there seemed to be scarcely anything else in the room except the sunny light on the floor. It was very long and dark; smooth like a boat; with bright handles. Half the top was open. There was a strange, sweet smell, so faint that it could scarcely be realized. Rufus had never known such stillness. Their little sounds, as they approached, vanished upon it like the infinitesimal whisperings of snow, falling on open water. There was his head, his arms; suit; there he was ... He saw him much more clearly than...
...every tourist folder says, the Caribbean is a land of contrasts. Froude can write of standing on the waterfront at Kingston in Grenada: "The off-shore night breeze had not yet risen. The harbor was as smooth as a looking-glass and the stars shone double in the sky and on the water. The silence was only broken by the whistle of the lizards or the cry of some far-off marsh frog. The air was warmer than we ever feel in the depth of an English summer, yet pure and delicious and charged with the perfume of a thousand...
...over that had the Crimson not lost the invaluable services of left halfback Chet Boulris and right tackle Pete Briggs early in the game, the outcome might have been different. The varsity had several second-half scoring opportunities on which it could not make good, and had the smooth-running Boulris been in the lineup, he might have made the difference...
...Caucasian's; half-closed, her lids showed no crease or fold running across them, and her lashes always pointed down. Like other Japanese girls, she had been impressed by the postwar flood of U.S. movies and magazines. Instead of the traditional Japanese ideal of beauty-sloe-eyed, smooth-featured, flat-chested-many of them want to be more like their Western cousins with high noses, round eyes, curly lashes and prominent busts...