Word: lacquered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated 300 h.p. (because Ford wants to avoid a horsepower contest with other big cars, the exact figures are secret). Automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes and power windows are standard equipment; the sole optional feature is air conditioning. To preserve its elegant finish (two double coats of lacquer, triple-thickness chromium plating), each Continental will be shipped to the dealer in a fleece-lined canvas and plastic envelope...
...stiletto-nosed, dull white Skyrocket built by Douglas for the Navy.* It could fly for three minutes under full power after it had been dropped from the bomb bay of a B29, but it took weeks to prepare for each 180-sec. flight, including replacing the 15 coats of lacquer burned off in every...
...Soft Answer. Through the onslaught, Chou En-lai aired himself briskly with a black lacquer fan. Finally he rose to reply...
...hours' notice, newsmen were called to Saigon's colonnaded Palais Norodom, the seat of French government in Indo-China. There one day last week, beneath whirring fans and a lacquer painting of junks, they were confronted by the two top Frenchmen in Asia: Commanding General Henri Eugene Navarre, and Maurice Dejean, the Commissioner General...
...across-country races on Friday, followed by the downbill race and jump on Saturday. And although the F.I.S. World Championships in Sweden have plucked some of the best skiers from a few teams, there'll be more top-notched schussers there than you can shake a can of Faski lacquer...