Word: sleeked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently offered $1,200 a month, 15% of the firm's profits, two months' pay a year as bonus, and a membership share in the Valle Arriba golf club, now quoted at $7,000. Caracas' mountain-fringed East End, filled with ever more of the sleek, pastel-walled villas favored by the moneyed musius (as Venezuelans call foreigners, from monsieur), is one of the sights of South America. To staff such places and sustain the pace of entertainment, some of the hard-trading, hard-drinking men who keep the dance of the Bs going hire...
Whipping over the flats, kicking up big rooster tails of salt dust, the racers looked more like shuttling ants than cars. A tiny Class "O" (91 cu. in. of cylinder space, the smallest classification) Lakester buzzed along at 111.46 m.p.h., a bigger version got up to 188.08 m.p.h., a sleek streamliner with two V-8 engines churning 600 h.p. reached 255.41 m.p.h. By the time the Nationals were over, U.S. records in 15 classes had been smashed, and the hot-rodders were just getting started...
After the others had left, six cars, all sleek streamliners, stayed behind to take a crack at International speed records. Like their smaller brothers, the streamliners were put together from stock parts. But there the resemblance ended. Their teardrop bodies were made of sleek Fiberglas or hammered aluminum, their stock engines retooled and refitted for at least twice the ordinary horsepower. One car flipped over at 240 m.p.h.; the driver, protected by safety belts and rollover bars, got out with a broken leg. But the others, whistling eerily over the 14-mile course, shattered records in three International classes, some...
...well over 3,000,000 inhabitants, is as jammed with new buildings as Houston. Skyscrapers, one of them 43 stories high, soar above its Spanish church towers. Along its principal avenues flow rivers of cars, most of them assembled in Mexico (in U.S.-owned branch plants). From hundreds of sleek factories on the outskirts come office furniture, cosmetics and toilet articles, trucks and buses, cortisone and refrigerators. Along broad Insurgentes Avenue, one of the hemisphere's brightest shopping centers, Mexicans can buy a Jaguar, a cabin cruiser, a Paris gown, a set of tubular-steel garden furniture...
...rain that lashed the green Ruhr Valley, one sleek Mercedes after another swung off the highway and pulled up in the courtyard of a big white farmhouse. Well-fed, important-looking Germans hurried inside. A movie-fan would have guessed that some plot was afoot...