Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest skiers (among them: the Austrian shepherd Anton Seelos), Emile was never quite satisfied with what he was learning. He began jotting down notes on new theories, would steal up a mountain even at night to try those theories out. Soon he had a style all his own, so fluid and effortless that in 1938 the French Ski Federation adopted it as official. It was a revolution in skiing technique. The French revolution has been spreading ever since...
...indications, Lowell is the team to beat in the A League. No loss than five Jayvees have joined with the cream of last year's third-place unit into a combination that is both tall and talented. The rest of the world quavers at the thought of the fluid, everybody-is-a-forward, Varsity-type system cooked up by Coaches Cliff Crosby and John Rockwell. The Bellboys also boast the only certain starting lineup: Jack Goldsmith and Wally Coulson at guard, Fred Donahue and Mike Post at forward and John Altroechi at center...
...Georgia's Toombs County, deep in the dark land of white supremacy, Robert Mallard was known to many white folks as a "biggety nigger." At 37, he was a traveling salesman, strong, brash and prosperous. His voluminous sales of caskets, embalming fluid, and clothing irked his white competitors. He owned a 36-acre farm, drove a flashy 1948 Frazer sedan. He made frequent trips North and was fond of calling himself "Mister Robert Mallard...
...drug looked like a good bet for alcoholics. Other anti-worm medicines (e.g., the common cleaning fluid carbon tetrachloride) are sometimes fatally poisonous when mixed with alcohol. During the past year, two of Dr. Jacobsen's associates have treated 500 alcoholics with the drug; they called it "antabus" (from anti-abuse). By last week 450 of the patients still had a loathing for alcohol after only one dose of antabus...
...Surface. Penman Milton Reynolds came up from the murky underwater world of ball-point pens with an eyecatching new gadget. It was a transparent plastic cigarette lighter with an oversize load of fluid-enough, he said, for 8,304 lights v. 842 for an ordinary lighter. Reynolds said that he has advance orders for 250,000 (including 50,000 for Gimbels), and that subcontractors, already producing 18,000 a day, would soon step up production to 70,000. The price, with the plastic stand and case: $5. So that customers will not associate the lighter with his much-panned...