Word: sleeked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed to mind. The U.S. public has come to worship high-performance cars, and here were the latest sleek and high-powered family autos performing at their rarely possible, full-throttle best. For the first time since 1936, when stock car racing began at Daytona, last week's speed trials seemed like the high old times of the early '20s, when every auto factory sponsored a racing stable. Here once more were big names of auto racing-Mauri...
...Truman tax scandals, a star performer was chunky, sleek Abraham Teitelbaum, a Chicago lawyer whose clients included the late Al Capone. To a House subcommittee. Teitelbaum shrilled out a fantastic story of how two men had tried to shake him down for $500,000. The "or else": he'd get into "bad tax trouble" if he didn't pay. Last week in Chicago, a federal court jury found him guilty of evading $135,060 in income taxes...
Hammarskjold's C-47 took off from Cairo's International Airport, a sleek new fighter plane flashed aloft from Almaza military airfield just four miles away The plane: one of the first of Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser's new Russian MIG jets to be seen over Egypt...
...seventh floor of Chicago's fortress-like Furniture Mart one day last week, a grinning salesman pushed a button in the back of a sleek modern sofa...
...star attraction at California's Steinhart Aquarium last week was a sleek, 180-lb. female named Eugenie. A placid seaweed-eater that looks like the product of an accidental mating of a hippo and a walrus, Eugenie is a dugong, one of the fast-disappearing submarine elephants that range the warm oceans from the Red Sea to the South Pacific. Six feet long and probably three years old, she was caught by a native fisherman off the Palau Islands and flown to San Francisco by Stanford University Ichthyologist Dr. Robert Rees Harry. U.S. marine biologists believe that Eugenie...