Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Although there has been no indication when preliminary negotiations would be completed and appointments announced, the need to arrange a smooth transition period between the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations means the positions will probably be filled by the first week of January...
Vitiligo, or "piebald skin," is a disease that can be badly disfiguring in Negroes. It is characterized by smooth, light-colored patches of skin from which the natural pigment has disappeared. When it attacks the face, vitiligo sometimes produces a mottled, owlish visage. Victims usually cover the splotches with makeup or, in desperation, resort to tattooing-which rarely helps. Georgetown University's Dr. Robert Stolar last week announced that he got dramatic results from treating vitiliginous Negroes with a drug called monobenzyl ether of hydroquinone (MBEHQ). The drug's effect; it turns Negro skin white...
...mostly murder Saturday night, as a smooth but not outstanding Crimson machine squashed an all-but-helpless Brown swimming team...
...Wind, when he snarled at Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," he taught the talkies how to swear. And when he slapped Norma Shearer's face in A Free Soul (1931), he slapped into obsolescence the smooth and courtly Valentino school of hand-kissing elegance. "Perhaps," said Norma Shearer last week, "that was where Noel Coward got the idea for his line: 'Every woman should be hit regularly-like a gong.' And for that sort of thing it was Gable who made villains popular. Instead...
...Police are learning English in preparation for the 1964 Olympic Games and have launched a safety drive against Tokyo's kamikaze taxicabs. Some $400 million will be spent to improve Japan's lamentable highways, and brand-new cruise ship's with air-conditioned cabins cleave the smooth waters of the enchanting Inland Sea with its 700 islands, seemingly sprung straight out of Japanese paintings...