Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nagy's lard-smooth face was needed after Stalin's death, while Soviet collective leadership was still collecting itself. Worried that Berlin riots might have chain reaction in satellites, the Russians in 1953 pulled the hated Rakosi back to Moscow, put up Nagy to head fictitious "People's Front." Nagy (called Hungary's Malenkov) condemned the previous "megalomaniac economic policy" and "exaggerated industrialization," promised workers more food, clothes, an end to "disciplinary measures." But one month after the fall of Malenkov in Russia, Nagy was denounced as a "rightist deviationist" who "encouraged nationalism and chauvinism." Reported...
Osteoarthritis (degenerative joint disease). No known cause except advancing years, but there are probably other causes, especially in premature severe cases; 97% of persons over 60 have it, though most in such mild form that they have few symptoms. Occurs when bearing surfaces in joints lose their smooth mobility. Resulting handicap may be negligible or severe; it is rarely disabling. Aspirin helps to ease pain, as does heat (hot baths or heating pads); injection of hydrocortisone into a particular joint may give relief for months. A well-balanced, vitamin-rich diet is good for an oldster's general wellbeing...
...Borgnine on slow horses, and Dailey gives his paycheck to the ever-loving wife. But they all get together to write pretty little ditties (Sonny Boy, Black Bottom, Button Up Your Overcoat, Birth of the Blues), and Sheree North is usually around to sing them. The show glides along, smooth as a Detroit Air Cooled ("buoyant readability")-a dependable vehicle for those who long to be carried back to the days when the girls did the flea hop in short skirts, and the demand for violin cases was curiously in excess of the demand for violins...
...only real interest in the day's event was the battle for the top four places. Reider, weakened by a bad cold, matched strides with the smooth-running Iglesias for the first mile and a quarter, but on the second hill, the Cuban sophomore put on a spurt to pull into a 250 yard lead at the two-mile mark...
J.P.Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, suggested that an exam-less and course-less senior year would be a logical step to facilitate a smooth transition between undergraduate and graduate study...