Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brien kitchen became a political headquarters, and Democratic leaders from Boston made their way there-notably, flamboyant James Michael Curley, archetype of The Last Hurrah breed, and smooth-tongued David Ignatius Walsh, first Irishman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. Walsh was some times a trial: whenever he paid a call, he insisted on quizzing Larry on his American history and catechism. But Curley was another, headier cup of tea: as a bug-eyed boy, Larry listened spellbound as his father and Curley conspired like Sinn Feiners about the ways to break the hated Yankee Republican grip...
...waters off Key West were smooth and serene one morning last week as a 38-ft. patrol boat, manned by two of Fidel Castro's navy lieutenants and watchfully escorted by a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, sailed away to Havana. But behind his huge desk in Miami, an advertising-agency president named Erwin G. Harris, 40, was boiling mad. For by order of a state court, that patrol boat was his-even though it had just been swapped away from him by the U.S. Government...
...Aisha and her two sisters, Malika, 28, and Fatima Zorah, 32, to marry expeditiously; the choice of husbands was left to them. Each woman promptly said yes to a suitor. Malika, who runs the Red Crescent Society (Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross), became engaged to Rabat's smooth Ambassador to France, Mohammed ben Abdallah Cherkaoui, 40; shy Fatima Zorah picked Prince Moulay Ali el Alaoui, 38, a first cousin and the royal family's shrewdest business brain. Princess Aisha's choice: El Hassan ben Abdelaziz al Yakoubi, 27 (Aisha is 31), a handsome gentleman farmer whose...
...Smooth, clear and professional, the Central Park group offers, in the words of Elizabethan Scholar Marchette Chute, "bright, swift Shakespeare, overacted, rather like a poster, as it has to be out of doors; the great thing is that it brings Shakespeare back to his original, wonderfully motley audience." And it brings him back for nothing. In six seasons, Producer Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival has played to more than 600,000 people, never charging admission...
...third scrum a smooth-flowing series of passes resulted in the first tally for the Crimson. The demoralized collegians played a strictly defensive game until just before the end of the first half, when an intercepted pass brought the College All-Stars their first try of the series...