Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official residence last week. Premier Nobusuke Kishi ignored the dangling ropes and scaffolds outside his open window as workmen installed air conditioning on an upper floor. Even when a heavy window frame slipped from a worker's hand and landed with a splintering crash on the ground, the smooth flow of Kishi's talk and his relaxed manner did not change...
...administrative road of union was rocky, the spiritual road was smooth and broad. The Commission to Prepare a Statement of Faith presented a 231-word document to the delegates, who passed it unanimously. Immediately after the vote, the delegates jumped to their feet-some laughing, many weeping-and burst spontaneously into the doxology: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow...
Late in the program, Gibson set aside the banjo for the twelve-string guitar. This was unfortunate, as he has little of the technique required for playing this difficult instrument. But his smooth and extremely appealing voice carried the audience through the last few songs...
...Nixon is unprincipled, particularly in campaign attacks on opponents. Mazo feels that at times Nixon has "resorted to malignant innuendo"; yet he also makes it plain that Nixon has said no more than other politicians in the heat of a campaign. Possibly Nixon gets blamed more readily because the smooth precision of his speeches always suggests that he knows precisely what he is saying, while the snarls of a Harry Truman, for instance, are often ascribed to a sort of folksy hot temper. Yet Nixon has quite a temper of his own. Once, in a test at law school, asked...
...with a professor who has the unfortunate habit of murdering his pupils. He requires truly virtuoso acting, and Frank Langella just wasn't quite up to it. The professor is required to grow continuously more irritated, and concurrently more forceful, throughout the play. Ideally the process should be completely smooth but Mr. Langella crammed almost all of the change into one instant. As the pupil, Myra Mailloux handled the contrasting decline of her socialite poise with greater smoothness. Alice Lindbergh as the maid who has seen this happen 40 times was good...