Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smooth out his jumbled syntax, Kennedy's staff has put together thick black briefing binders filled with direct, simple answers to questions that may arise. "I feel more comfortable on the podium now," says Kennedy and indeed he sometimes strikes a certain rhythm in his basic stump speech that can rouse an audience. "What we have now is not a malaise among the American people, but a malaise in the highest levels of leadership," he booms, slashing the air with one hand and flipping large note cards with the other. "A can't-do President...
Diplomatic standings will change in the coming era, some up, some down. The Soviet Union's smooth-talking Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin will rate lower. So will former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and certain diplomats from the Third World. Henry Kissinger, former everything, will step a notch up. So will Anwar Sadat's skillful Washington envoy Ashraf Ghorbal. Spies are back, and the Carter Administration will not be using the word love quite so often or in quite the same...
Freshman sensation Lundberg continued his record-breaking habits later in the 200 breaststroke, lowering his own University standard and shattering the Black Bears' pool record with a smooth...
...settled on Alderman Edward Burke, 35, a lawyer and a former policeman who favors tailored suits and vest pocket watch fobs. Like other members of the machine, he had been at odds with Byrne. During her primary campaign to unseat Mayor Bilandic, Byrne sneered at the ambitious and smooth-talking Burke, calling him a member of "an evil cabal," that surrounded Mayor Bilandic. Asked how the mayor could change her mind and support him, Burke grinned and said: "Well, some cabals are more evil than others...
...skating was smooth, the passes precise, the offense aggressive and the defense tight. The only problem was that the puck didn't find its way into the Brown net Saturday afternoon at Bright Hockey Center, and the Bruins blanked the Crimson icewomen...