Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Aiken for president pro tempore. In nominating Aiken, G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen noted that the Vermonter's middle name is David. Cried Ev: "I am confident that he will be like his namesake, David of old, who reached into the brook of Elah, and there found smooth stones for his slingshot with which to humble Goliath. In the same spirit, George Aiken will reach into the brook...
Elah, wherever it may be in Vermont, and with smooth stones vanquish all the philistine forces of evil which either threaten or jeopardize this Republic." Whereupon the Senate re-elected Carl Hayden as president pro tempore...
Last week golf's reigning king got his revenge. His tee shots caromed 300 yds. and more down Rancho's rock-hard fairways, his approach shots died quietly inches from the pin, and his putts banged boldly into the cup. At first, other pros hogged the headlines: smooth-swinging Gene Littler led briefly; aging (52 ) Dutch Harrison flashed enough of his old form to take the second-round lead; and Art Wall, the 1959 Masters winner, shot a third-round 67, four strokes under par. But the gallery paid little attention. By the time Palmer teed...
...prosperous team. Today the faith of Mohammed is spreading rapidly across Africa, and with it spreads the dream of a Pan-Islamic political empire under Gamal Abdel Nasser. Both dreams are being propagated by one of the world's most energetic missionary forces: the Supreme Islamic Council, a smooth-running religious organization controlled by the Egyptian government...
Herbert first came into the Yard through the famous gate inscribed "Enter To Grow In Wisdom" and, ambitious Freshman that he was, determined to grow Harvard wise. He quickly learned the primary lesson that there are smooth and rough, weil-considered and ill-considered ways of saying things. It was rough and offensive not to qualify adjectives. To say, "This book is good," is too direct, too hard on the sensibilities. How much better to say, "This book is quite good," "rather good," or "sort of good." Herbert also discovered the devastating effect of the words "indeed," "thus...