Word: sleeked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tire people and wear them out, but we get it done." With the job of testing a nose cone for Jupiter, the Huntsville team kept going on Jupiter-C. Actually Jupiter-C-a bundle of rockets beefing up the Army's Redstone-was hardly kin to the sophisticated, sleek Jupiter itself. But while other services hooted at its "brute-force approach" to space, Jupiter-C once flew 3,500 miles, once carried the test Jupiter nose cone into space and back again; President Eisenhower displayed the recovered nose cone in his first television speech after Sputnik. The Army missilemen...
...bird sprang from its surprising success. Ford expected to lose some $10 million on the car but make it up in added prestige for standard Fords. Instead, it sold twice as well as expected (53,166 produced in all), and made a profit to boot. The sleek new T-bird will be another entry in Ford's luxury-class race against General Motors' Cadillac, has been restyled for $30 million to look like a small version of the Continental Mark II. It comes with a standard 3OO-h.p. Thunderbird V-8 engine. The wheelbase has grown...
...used to frighten me. I used to shiver and shake . . . and usually I would say the wrong thing." Unwittingly illustrating her point, she added: "It's most unfortunate that I can't travel with an enchanting young man without all this talk starting!" The enchanting young man: sleek, suave Philip Van Rensselaer, 30, a onetime Manhattan model, aspiring novelist, unwealthy descendant of an old New Amsterdam family. Bolstering reports that the pair have spent the past few months husking poetry to each other in romantic Venetian settings, there has been no recent sign of Babs's sixth...
...Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later, the tiny, dignified, bearded monarch, resplendent in blue uniform and green sash all enveloped in a redlined cloak, stepped out of a sleek green and black Rolls-Royce and entered the church to begin the ceremonies...
...mellow notes, plus a larger kind of rollicking, swaggering presence that had about it much of the animal authority Ezio Pinza used to exude in the role. What it lacked was only a tincture of malevolence: Siepi's acting was sometimes reminiscent of the reflex actions of a sleek cat rather than of a man willing to defy Heaven to enjoy earth. Soprano Steber presented a rich, blazing, gusty-voiced Donna Anna and Soprano Delia Casa an elegantly anguished Donna Elvira. And as Leporello, Basso Fernando Corena not only lurched and grimaced about the stage in convincing pantomime...