Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...held periodic meetings with a team of government officials, and since November he has had sessions with Cabinet ministers as well as almost daily talks with anti-apartheid leaders to try to find a common meeting ground. The 71-year-old prisoner, still tall and distinguished looking, his smooth face barely lined, his black hair just flecked with gray, greets each visitor with a smiling embrace...
...struggled from the field, hitting only 38 percent of its shots, and was also outrebounded, 49-42. But Harvard managed to overcome what has failed it all season long--turnovers. The Crimson lost the ball only 15 times in its most physical game of the season and combined its smooth ballhandling with clutch shots in the stretch to chalk...
...master of the smooth introduction at the reception was Sally Atwater, the wife of the Lee Atwater, chairman of the Republican Party. My brother and I were being ignored until Mrs. Atwater bumped into me. She was about seven months pregnant, and bumping into people was her perfect excuse for introducing herself...
...massive manhunt in all the wrong places tied up police for weeks. No one had time to look for cracks in the smooth facadeof the husband who tended his rhododendrons, jogged with his wife and shoveled snow off an elderly neighbor's steps. Few of the leads were followed that might have revealed a psychopath who had taken out large amounts of life insurance on his wife, possibly to finance the opening of a restaurant, a pathetic aspiration that shattered two families and a city's racial peace...
...Egypt back into the fold. In recent months, Assad has felt increasingly isolated, especially after the Soviet Union served notice that it would no longer support his aim of strategic parity with Israel. Now only Libya lacks diplomatic relations with Egypt, but even Tripoli is making an attempt to smooth its dealings with Cairo: last October Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi paid his first visit to Egypt in 16 years to meet with Mubarak. By all accounts the session was businesslike but amicable...