Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATIONAL AFFAIRS) were symptoms of a new and cooler temper in the cold war. There were other readings. Sir Winston Churchill's peroration at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London expressed hope that "we might even find ourselves in a few years moving along a broad, smooth causeway of peace and plenty instead of roaming and peering around on the rim of hell." And the Soviet radio celebrated the 21st anniversary of U.S. diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia by quoting George Washington: "Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations . . . should be excluded...
...sensualist is unable to escape the reverie of past sights. Samuel Thompson has portrayed a lonely who hides among filmy dreams and natural beauty when faced with such realistic as the end of a love affair and a heart attack: "The snow was like clean white sand, warm smooth sand. Just like a South Sea island a warm small island with fine tan women. And it was so wonderfully, lazily warm. So warm on the island that some of the women didn't wear any clothes...
...corporation lawyer, Brook would stride past the sneering unbelievers of shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth, black belly. For 20 minutes, horse and horse doctor would meditate in silent communion. "I don't go in much for talking to horses," said Brook. What he does, he explained, is "change nervous impulses," rejigger them until his patient's mind works to full capacity...
...followed the progress of the new Chevrolet from first sketches to drafting board to quarter-scale model to clay mockup with all the anxious looks a young father-to-be bestows upon his wife. Now he slowly circled the car, squinting at its lines and lightly touching its smooth surface. When his eye lighted on a horizontal crease in the molding of the trunk, he shook his head. "That's not good," said Curtice. "You'll see that it casts a shadow on the bottom half of the lid. That shadow makes the car look higher and narrower...
...four consecutive plays, Joslin advanced the ball from the Obio 47 to the 13, and then after one play and a penalty, Joslin swung fast to the right side and tossed a smooth floating pass to wingback Bob Cowles, waiting on the goal line...