Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was my third trip to a New York cave, but many of the others were beginners. I could hear them twisting through the Gunbarrel behind me, struggling even more than I had. The tube is just wide enough to squeeze into and is perfectly smooth, so you can't use the walls for leverage. There's a legend that some skinny greased marvel once slipped through in a record 23 seconds, but I was lucky to have made it in under ten minutes. My coveralls were ripped and splattered with mud; but then, that was all supposed...
Canine Greeters. In Australia, a fellow Texan-U.S. Ambassador Edward ("Big Ed") Clark-had taken pains to assure a smooth visit for the Johnsons and had a special 7-ft. bed installed for the boss. The Aussies did the rest. "He's a good bloke!" cried one old lady, and Lyndon felt that way about the blokes who lined the roads. Driving into Canberra, the President stopped his motorcade nine times to wade into cheering crowds, keeping Governor General Richard Casey waiting 30 minutes as a result. The performance left Prime Minister Harold Holt...
...that point on, Operation Sunrise reads like an exercise in frustration. The Russians, informed of the negotiations-against Dulles' better judgment-churlishly insisted that it was all really a plot to keep them out of the peace arrangements; at one point, Truman called the whole operation off to smooth the Bear's ruffled fur. Nazi changes of command kept eliminating generals who were sympathetic to Sunrise and replacing them with generals who were not. From Berlin, a counterplot by Himmler, designed only to steal the play away from Wolff, threatened to retire Sunrise to the limbo of lost...
...Brain Cells and their Gestapo, the Ball-bearings (led by Musical Director Liz Robbins), to convert the world-machine from harsh angles to flowing curves through sabotage and quiet confidence. All this requires an awfully large chunk of willing suspension of disbelief. If Leonard's weltanschauung is "smooth, round and beautifully spherical" why can't he and the "well-rounded" ball-bearings live in peace...
...third major candidate, Thomas B. Finan, is a straight-shooting, balding Baltimorian of the smooth, conservative style that has dominated Maryland politics for decades. He is presently state attorney general and has also served as secretary of state for Maryland. Finan was machine through and through, and based his entire campaign on defending the Tawes Administration...