Word: sleeked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born on the wrong side of the tracks, Ernie is the sort of stop-at-nothing cartoon capitalist who not only moved over to the right side-he also bought the tracks. The camera discovers him, in sleek middle age, roaring it up as the beast of the board room of the Eastern & Portland Railroad, whose cringing miscellany of vice presidents is pleading with the "general," as he likes to be called, not to ruin a poor helpless widow (Doris Day) and her two small children. With surly reluctance, he consents to make a nominal restitution to the "miserable broad...
Copycat. He was fascinated by the main architectural attraction-a sleek geodesic dome of gold-coated aluminum panels, 200 feet in diameter, abuilding at one end of the site. "This dome is really something," he chuckled again and again. He posed for pictures with some Italian workmen employed on the project, and called to Thompson: "Come and join me. After all, the Italians are your allies...
...here, going to the town dump in a nearby canyon has long been a favorite pastime, not only on Sunday. In the cool of the evening, the pines surround the area, dark and mysterious, and the purple mountains are etched against the glow of the setting sun. Families of sleek skunks sally forth to seek food in among the old car bodies, washing machines, boxes, and tires. Indeed we must claim the most beautiful dump in the country...
...prominent young women had a fleeting encounter by night on a highway leading into London. After sleek limousines had played tag at speeds up to 80 m.p.h., Britain's Princess Margaret and France's Cinemorsel Brigitte (Girl in the Bikini) Bardot, halted briefly at a traffic light, stared curiously at each other through the cars' side windows. When they raced onward, the royal limousine took a commanding lead. Purred Sex Kitten Bardot, who first met the princess at a command film performance two years ago: "I don't know if she knew me, but she looked...
...around to tap a foreign-car import market that is expected to top 500,000 units this year. Even England's staid old Daimler, best known for the limousines it builds for Britain's royal family, introduced a car specially designed for the U.S. market: a sleek, two-seater Daimler Dart sports car with speeds up to 123 m.p.h. and gas mileage of better than 30 miles per gal. On sale in the U.S. next year, the Dart will be priced at about $3,800. Some other show stoppers...