Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macleod, with Macmillan's Cabinet solidly behind him, turned all of his smooth skill to winning over the dissident Tories. After a series of closed-door meetings, most of the Tory rebels were ready to let their motion...
Kippers & Champagne. Like Olivier, Finney is immensely versatile, is as good in modern plays as costume drama, and has a range of diction from Queen's English to Britannic Brando. But he has none of the smooth gloss of the classical acting tradition. He is relentlessly naturalistic, and his technique seldom shows on the surface. Like Look Back in Anger's star, Kenneth Haigh, Finney typifies the antiromantic, non-U hero who has emerged from the new social realism of the British theater. But as the rough and uneducated Arthur Seaton, a Nottingham lathe operator who fairly hums...
...Paris, Bourguiba will presumably caution De Gaulle to give some sort of recognition to the F.L.N. as a disciplined and worthy opponent-perhaps through a private meeting with the F.L.N.'s Ferhat Abbas, where assurances can be exchanged. What the moment calls for is someone skillful enough to smooth the initial approach between France and the F.L.N. rebels it has fought for six long years. Dapper, quick-witted Habib Bourguiba may be just...
Because the economies of free nations are becoming more interdependent every day, the Western nations should look toward the day when they can cooperate more closely on fiscal policies, said Kennedy. He recommended a study to determine whether a new global financial agency should be founded to smooth out the cycles of boom-and-bust, surplus-and-deficit, by helping to regulate interest rates, money movements and fiscal policies throughout the non-Communist world. To create and join such a bank would require some sacrifice of economic sovereignty, but Jack Kennedy asked the Treasury to consider the idea...
Highlights of the B.A.A. Games were John Thomas' 7 foot, 3 inch high jump that now is only second best in the world; a new indoor record of 2:07.9 by smooth-pacing Ernie Cunliffe of Stanford; and the victory in the Hunter Mile of Hungary's Istvan Roszavolgi, who arrived in the country early Saturday morning...