Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respectively. Skipper Sopwith spent $150 to have Endeavour II hauled out of the water at Bristol. Maybe, he thought, a lobster pot had fouled her hull. Ranger's skipper did likewise. But no lobster pot was holding Endeavour back. Her sea-hardened paint was smooth, her hull sleek. Ranger's newer paint, however, was spotted, and her hull had to be daubed and cemented. Back at sea, Ranger proceeded to give Endeavour a further view of her stern, although Skipper Vanderbilt won the next two races by less embarrassing margins...
Sidestepping, sleek young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden yawned that His Majesty's Government "propose to continue the policy of Non-intervention as long as the nations are willing to do so. It would be impossible to say what would be the Government's policy in case of a breakdown. That must depend on the circumstances. ... If they are so serious that Parliament must be summoned, it will be summoned...
...distance, and mountainous dark storm-clouds or "thunderheads," with flat bottoms and bulging, shifting domes were moving in on Harris Hill. On the hilltop, where the meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing far off their courses to avoid thunderheads but motorless Pilot du Pont had just the opposite idea in mind...
Rosemeyer drives a sleek, silver Auto Union with the motor mounted in the rear, amuses grease-stained U. S. racers by strolling about the track in dressy shorts and green Tyrolean hat. In off hours he has been taught to fly by his wife, Elly Beinhorn, Germany's most famed aviatrix...
...gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted and renamed, the tall bark, unmistakable for her clipper bow and sleek racing lines, was recognized by British and U. S. naval officers of the International Slave Patrol, insouciantly ferrying from the west coast of Africa to lonely U. S. inlets...