Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking the singles Nayar played six men, and lost only one game out of nine-teen. Nayar has a smooth grace that makes his blindingly fast game look easy. While most of his opponents relied on smashes, Nayar combined smashes with gentle up-court shots that forced his opposition to run up and down the court and allowed Nayar to control the matches...
...Apollo astronauts. Two of the three-mile by five-mile elliptical landing zones are in the Ocean of Storms on the west side of the visible face of the moon, one in the appropriately named Central Bay and two in the easterly Sea of Tranquillity. All are relatively smooth and unobstructed, giving the astronauts a good chance of selecting a spot that is free of boulders, ridges or rifts that could endanger the landing of the lunar module...
Skimming over waves ten feet high, the SR.N4 raced ahead at speeds as high as 53 m.p.h., carrying a crew of four and 28 passengers. The ride was surprisingly smooth. Reported Peter Lamb, chief test commander of British Hovercraft Corp.: "This will make seasickness a thing of the past...
During the second frame, the smooth-passing Blue and White held Harvard scoreless. Combining speed and finesse, they hit at 0:20 and outshot the Crimson, 11-7. The game remained deadlocked until Harvard's outburst in the last frame...
...with transplanted hearts followed opposite courses last week. For Philip Blaiberg, 58, in Cape Town, the course was smooth. But at Stanford Medical Center, Mike Kasperak, 54, went from crisis to fatal crisis...