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Word: smoothness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Floyd Wilson's strategy to halt Bradley and Company hit the jackpot. In the first half scrappy Crimson guard Leo Scully covered Bradley, and the Nassau sensation scored only 13 points. During the second half Harvard unfolded a smooth-functioning zone, which forced the Tiger to shoot from outside. Bradley added 17 more for his output of 30, two below his average...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quintet Stuns Princeton, Ties for Ivy Lead | 2/8/1964 | See Source »

Penn has a well-balanced attack featuring 6-2 Stan Pawlak, who is averaging 16-9; fiery, sharp-shooting guard Ray Carazo; Jeff Neuman, a smooth back-court man who can dribble the ball between his legs; and John Hellings, a (gulp) 6-3 sophomore center...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quintet Stuns Princeton, Ties for Ivy Lead | 2/8/1964 | See Source »

...everything from works of Bach and Villa-Lobos to South Pacific and The Mother Magoo Suite. She has lived most of her life in the Hollywood area and has been a singer since she was ten, when, as Margaret Nixon Mc-Eathron, she won a contest with a smooth Blue Danube at the Pomona State Fair. At 17, she quit high school to work as a messenger at MGM, soon got her first $35 dubbing job as the singing voice of Margaret O'Brien. The Instant Voice, as her husband calls her, is 32 now, makes about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Instant Voice | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...believes it knows the basic laws that govern both kinds of blasts. If nuclear explosives are placed in "strings" with the distance between them equal to half the diameter of the crater that a single shot would dig, and if they are exploded simultaneously, they will excavate a smooth-bottomed ditch, throwing the rock to the sides. One hundred shots, for instance, of 100 kilotons each, will dig a ditch 1,600 ft. wide, 350 ft. deep and 16 miles long. If its bottom is 60-odd ft. below sea level, it can serve as a spacious ship canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Energy: Ploughshare Canals | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...anyone doubts who runs CBS, the oil-smooth words of CBS-TV's President Aubrey should put the doubts to rest. "Mr. Paley doesn't dictate," says Aubrey. "He leads by persuasion. If you differ with him, by the time you're through talking with him he has indicated how his point of view had more to recommend it than yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mr. CBS | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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