Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palmer's project was to provide free long-playing records of Mexican classics, concerts, songs and stories by professional artists, and a series of Mexican travelogues "so that the blind can appreciate the beauties they can never see." The project got off to a smooth start, well-known entertainers offered their services free, a U.S. recording company said it would make the recordings at cost. A campaign was started for public contributions to pay for playing equipment and making the records. But suddenly, as TIME'S story explained, there was an urgent reason to complete the fund-raising...
...detector as a bonus. The confidence-man gently chides the old fellow, "since in Providence, as in man, you and I equally put trust." "Let me extinguish this lamp," he says, and as he leads the old man off into the darkness, the confidence-man is no longer a smooth-talking Iago turned riverboat swindler, but the Devil himself holding the whole earth in his black hand...
...gains forward speed, its wing begins to contribute lift. When the rotors have been turned through 90° and are facing fully forward, all the lift comes from the wing, as in a standard airplane. The conversion in the Bell takes about 15 seconds and is said to be smooth and easy. Top speed in horizontal flight: more than 175 m.p.h...
...from the School of Worcester and the other by Dunstabe--served to point up the great differences between the medieval and Renaissance approach: the former was sturdy and barbaric, the lines being forced into a rhythmic strait-jacket with a witting unconcern for beauty of sound; the latter was smooth and euphonious, with emphasis on serene arches of sophisticated simplicity...
...Whitfield, 30, work meant running and making friends for the U.S. From Iceland to the heart of the Congo, the limber-legged Negro demonstrated the smooth style and strenuous training techniques that have won him two Olympic gold medals (at 800 meters in 1948 and 1952) and helped him set ten middle-distance marks. * Everywhere, he managed to give local runners a quick course of expert coaching, lead them through exhausting calisthenics and still had strength enough to run the legs off the fastest trackmen around. Seldom has the U.S. State Department sponsored so popular an ambassador...