Word: sleeked
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...Henry Kaiser's shipyards in the Northwest went back to a seven-day week. The reason: inability to obtain 10,000 additional workers needed to keep pace with tanker and transport building schedules. But at the Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard at Baltimore, the keel was laid for a sleek, 9,902-ton freighter intended for the postwar services of the American Export Lines to Mediterranean and Indian ports...
Above the tanks sped a roaring flock of sleek, full-armed, heavy-powered U.S. fighters, manned by youngsters trained to kill...
...Redoubtable Warrior." Arthur Coningham is over six feet tall, and built to scale. Sleek, urbane, convivial, popular, he does not smoke, drinks practically nothing (an occasional sherry, gin-&-bitters or small whiskey with meals). Win ston Churchill once referred to him as "no mere technician but a redoubtable warrior...
...sleek black Cadillac whisked the General to the White House. In the oval, creamy-walled old diplomatic reception room, Franklin Roosevelt said, "My, I'm glad to see you." The conversation limped along in mangled French and English. De Gaulle remained impeccably polite, unsmiling. Finally the photographers were through and Franklin Roosevelt said...
There were other irritations. Slick, sleek Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, big-time oilman, banker and part owner of the prewar pro-Fascist Paris Jour, had contrived to slip out of Algiers, turn up in Madrid. With him was Jean Rigaud, long his secretary, fixer and crony and a member of the short-lived Giraud government. The Gaullists suspected that Allied officials had supplied the passes and transportation, that a serious effort to save the skins of many Vichymen was being prepared...