Word: sleeked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is an obvious foil for these novices sculling for the first or second time. It is the little band of men who glide smoothly up and down the river in sleek, narrow shells with red and silver trim...
...there are few upsets now, when the river is smooth and the sun is warm on the bare-backed senior scullers. They are taking full advantage of the privilege of guiding their sleek new sculls, with red tipped oars dipping almost noiselessly, for quiet miles up and down the river, past the ivied Houses, past sunbathers, and through bridgees -- almost as much of the spring scene as the river itself.The boat house, which builds its own shells, also maintains facilities for repairing them. Boat-builder "ANDY" ANDERSON is shown inspecting a damaged wherry...
...Stars & Stripes fluttered from the mainmast as Italy's sleek new liner Andrea Doria docked at Naples last week with the first woman envoy ever sent to Italy, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce. As the gangplank went down, dignitaries rushed aboard with flowers for the ambassador, and 120 photographers and newspaperman, mostly Italians, followed in a torrent...
...more expensive big brother, the long-barreled revolver, shoots for a guaranteed 75 feet, and further, if boosted with a special jet squirt. The sleek, narrow barrel aims with pin-point accuracy, known to flick a pencil from a hand. Even the great man of guns, Ed McGiverin, claims no such feats in his "Fast and Famous Revolver Shooting...
Inside the two houses, little had been left to the imagination. Simpering store-window dummies posed on the uncomfortable upholstery of government-surplus furniture. A laughing two-year-old perched precariously on the back of a chaise longue; a young woman postured in leg-revealing shorts. Upstairs a sleek blonde feigned innocent sleep. In one cellar, pajama-clad parents had herded their kids into wooden FCDA shelters, as if they had just been awakened by the wail of a warning siren. In every room, dummy Americans waited for the works...