Word: sleeking
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Ankle-deep in the heather of a north German moor, the green-clad hunter carefully quartered the area until he found a rabbit hole. Noting fresh tracks, he solemnly commented: "Das ist gut." From a leather pouch on his hip he brought out a sleek, sausage-shaped ferret named Mookie. The three tiny bells on his neck tinkling, Mookie was launched down the rabbit hole. The Jagermeister (hunt master) watched intently as Mookie's master raised his gauntleted left arm and spoke soothingly to the malevolent-looking hawk tethered to his wrist. "Steady, Diana. Steady, pretty girl," whispered...
Carlotta, says one of her friends, is possessed by "the Zeitgeist." For her, everything runs by fad: in the '30s she marched in Union Square, now she cultivates her ego. Still beautiful in middle age, her mind as sleek as her skin, shrewd in business, burning with vanity, oozing prefabricated charm, she personifies the glossiest in Manhattan nightclub and summer-resort society. One weekend, in the summer of 1950, while the radio hums with reports of war in Korea, Carlotta throws a party in East Hampton for a speculator in money and models, a fellow-traveling movie director...
...almost every Sunday morning since last May, a sleek black limousine pulled away from the Soviet legation in Tel Aviv last week, threaded its way through the stony Judean hills to Jerusalem, and rolled to a stop before a wide white building with green onion domes. Out of the car and into the incense-filled Russian Orthodox Church filed Pavel Ivanovich Ershov, Soviet minister to Israel, and some of his top staff aides. The churchgoing Communists were adding some new wrinkles to an old plot they had inherited from the czars...
Last week Britannia, who has never hesitated to claim mastery over the waves, reduced the Atlantic to mere ditch-size. The three-man crew of a sleek, black & silver British Canberra Mark V jet bomber took off from Northern Ireland's Aldergrove Airport one morning, crossed the Atlantic, had lunch in Gander, Newfoundland, and were back at Aldergrove in time for tea. Flying time: 7 hrs. 59 minutes...
Just before 8 o'clock one morning last week, Ike Eisenhower drove up to a sleek DC-6B at Denver's Stapleton Airport, to embark on his long-promised big drive for the presidency. At Ike's insistence ("This is one thing I'm odd about"), the 20 members of his staff and 30 newsmen climbed aboard the plane first.* Then Ike swung through the door and the "Eisenhower Special" was off to Boise, Idaho...