Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humans grow older, the innermost layer (intima) of the arteries, ordinarily a thin, smooth membrane, tends to roughen and thicken in a process that may be compared to what happens when deposits of lime accumulate inside a water pipe. This change in the arterial wall is known generally as atherosclerosis...
Service Fire President Emil Chervenak (whose company last year paid parent C.I.T. $4,000,000 in dividends on its $2,000,000 capitalization) tried to smooth things over. "We hadn't realized we were so far off and are correcting it," he apologized. "This is a tremendous job because we are a policy factory, and as a result of this we are buried under tons of paper. Our financial competitors are still not doing it." But last week in New York and Oklahoma, the insurance commissions were quietly investigating to see whether their motorists were still being overcharged...
Trial does not have to pound away at its theme; it jabs sparingly, but mostly in the right places. Glenn Ford, as the honest and sometimes bewildered lawyer, and Arthur Kennedy, as the smooth Communist manipulator, are both topnotch. Dorothy McGuire is just right as the reformed fellow-traveling secretary who regretfully looks on as Ford gets caught in the snare; Rafael Campos (The Blackboard Jungle) is a good Angel. And the picture has another attraction: filmed in black and white for a screen of much less than the common contemporary width, it can be comfortably watched by people...
...took off in a whoosh of jet exhaust. The Prime Minister directed the huge aircraft as far as the English Channel, took over the controls for one long stretch, then landed at an airport near his home in London. "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful," said Eden scrambling out. "It was as smooth as a magic carpet...
...Egypt's closest ally, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, promptly raised a howl of protest, and Nasser hastily sent Salem off on a "leave of absence." He flew into a fit of temperament that only his older brother, Wing Commander Gamal Salem, the Deputy Premier, was able to smooth over. Again, at a diplomatic conference in India, he became so annoyed at the protocol that denied him a place beside Nasser that he pointedly passed up one official function, and was later discovered by Nasser sulking alone in his automobile...