Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity's easy victory may be the last smooth sailing for the mermen for a long time. After Saturday's Army meet at West Point, they have to face Navy on December 12. The service teams beat the Crimson last year by identical scores of 57-38 and both are perennially rated among the top in the East...
Durfee was 7-2-1 as a sophomore, the best record of anyone on the team last year. A smooth, stylish wrestler, he placed third in his class at the rugged Coast guard Tournament...
...real botanical question just what these trees are," Lorin I. Nevling, Jr., associate curator of the Arboretum, declared. Many people in New England call trees like those on Memorial Drive plane trees, he said, simply because the trees' bark comes off in long sheets and leaves a smooth surface...
...pitching profession aggravated the block: every time he threw a pitch, his muscles and bones would pinch the artery, constricting the vessel even as it was straining to allow blood to pass through. The most promising therapy would be removal of the sympathetic nerves that control the contraction of smooth muscle in the arterial walls...
Lying prone in a cockpit perched on Monster's side, Art yowled past the timers at 515.98 m.p.h. on his first run, turned around and headed back. Down went the throttle, up climbed the airspeed indicator-to 500, to 550, to 575 m.p.h. At that speed, the seemingly smooth salt flats felt like a washboard, and the 6,500-lb. car bucked and yawed. The needle touched 600 m.p.h., and-pow! The right rear tire disintegrated; Firestone had warned him not to top 550. Arfons popped his braking chutes, fought Monster to a shuddering stop, clambered unsteadily from...