Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike most mammoth science and engineering projects, SLAC has had unusually smooth and efficient sailing. Its total cost will be $114 million, precisely the amount appropriated five years ago for SLAC's sponsor, the Atomic Energy Commission. In a warmup test last month, it produced an 18.4 BEV beam and performed so well that its Stanford operators decided to begin allotting time for experiments to start next November, several months ahead of schedule. Its only serious problem, caused by the stubborn refusal of Woodside, a nearby suburb, to allow use of its land for SLAC...
With sales of its smooth light Pilsner beer expanding nicely, Denmark's Carlsberg Brewery this summer is pushing completion of a 12,000-ton-capacity barley silo at its plant in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby. Nobody keeps a more interested eye on the project than Carlsberg's competitor, United Breweries, which produces Tuborg. But the watchful eye is not at all due to envy. On the contrary: Tuborg is paying half of the silo's cost and hopes that the facility pays...
...intricate as a spider web, interlaced with the chatter of small untuned drums and plunking strings reminiscent of Oriental music. The most impressive achievement was that, in mixing such disparate elements as modern dissonances, a morality play and No drama, there was no clash of styles but rather a smooth melding into what is a new and wholly engaging musical form...
...Keyes literary style, which is as smooth as clabber, is to hook connective tissue to a lavish collection of cliches. No doubt the hundreds that occur in her book have been worn even smoother by constant use. "Unseemly behavior," "ulterior motive," "the bond of affection," "spread like wildfire," "fraught with danger," "outraged dignity," "food for thought," "kicking over the traces," "nefarious scheme," "accepted with alacrity," "wild disorders," "the handwriting on the wall," "a figment of imagination," "travel-stained "garments," "the unvarnished truth," "failing fast," "a kind and devoted husband," "their fury knew no bounds," "by hook or crook"-they...
...they come? A girl all flaxon haired commented to her friend in smooth tones that left a vapour-trail of sophistication--meanwhile throwing a partly used ice cream cone down before her--"I don't normally come to these meat markets, but I was thirsty...