Word: smooths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before lunch, the President has a meeting with union representatives in the Cabinet Room. Vice President Mondale is there when Carter arrives and later remains to smooth feathers after the President has left. The union men urge a more protectionist policy on Carter, particularly for the TV, textile and footwear industries, which have severe competition from foreign imports...
...perception on the part of liberals that unfounded white racism prevented a smooth desegregation process, Liberty's Chosen Home rejects that explanation as simplistic; the deeper, and more endemic problem is wrapped up in class differences and American attitudes toward the city. It was class, as well as race, that made busing such an explosive issue: working class whites resented being the subjects in some grand social experiment designed and supported by middle-class suburbanities. Lupo condemns the arrogance and inflexibility of a system that shows little regard for the concept of neighborhood and consciously mixes the poor South Boston...
Their flight over Belgium, France and Spain, then southward over the Atlantic, had been smooth. Some may have been able to read KLM's in-flight magazine, featuring their skipper, Captain Veldhuizen, as a handsome example of the airline's reputation for "reliability." When word was radioed to the crew that Las Palmas Airport had been closed because terrorists had touched off a bomb in a local flower shop, injuring eight people, they landed at Tenerife instead. Veldhuizen took advantage of the delay to refuel his plane for the flight back to Holland. He took on 21,000 gallons...
...burnt in the shape of old furniture that will not sell. Wood stands as a monument in the countryside, whether in the form of a massive tree or in tiny specks of black charcoal. Pierre loves it, is fascinated by the intricacies of its design, the grain that is smooth to the touch, in a way that he never has been by a woman's body. He broods over a glass of fizzling alka-seltzer about the use of plastics. "Soon wood will exist only in film...
...shrewd listener and talker. With poor people, a strong stomach counts. Says he: "I've had to drink coffee out of cracked cups with roach wings floating around inside." But if Blye sits at their tables, they shed their mistrust. With the more affluent, a smooth line of backchat comes in handy...